The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) says the report of the A K Mukherjee committee suggesting that forest land be given to industry for plantations could "sound the final death knell" for

The Indonesia forest fires are back. And the consequences could be worse than last year. Singapore has had a foretaste. As the new blazes spread their way through East Kalimantan and Sumatra air

In a major operation, a special team of the Customs Preventive Unit (CPU) in Tuticorin seized over 12 tonnes of sandalwood, worth about Rs. 1 crore, shortly before the consignment was to be illegally

Forest fires raging since December have claimed vast tracts of world heritage-listed forests in central Thailand, officials said on Wednesday."The fires have burned some 6,000 acres of the park,"

The Government is not convinced with the results of a two-month experiment using Russian technology that can purportedly create "artificial cyclones" to disperse haze. However, Science, Technology

A notification declaring the entire Gir forest and sanctuary as a national park has become a bone of contention between the state government and thousands of forest settlers, who will be rendered

The U.S. Forest Service plan to log nearly 900 acres and build several miles of new roads in the upper part of the Sunlight Creek drainage not far from the eastern border of Yellowstone National Park

The Supreme Court has held that a forest corporation is not entitled to tax exemptions on the ground that it was a local authority. The court made this ruling in the case of UP Forest Corporation,

The Centre for Science and Environment has opposed moves being contemplated by the Government to hand over forest land to industry for captive plantations. The recommendations which figure in the

The domestic paper industry may see large-scle restructuring in the next six months with mergers, sell outs and even closures of unviable units on the cards, says an industry veteran and the managing