Valuable trees were felled and transported on Tuesday by residents of Belavadi, near Ramanathapura in Hassan district due to a difference of opinion with the village forest committee.

Neither the forest department personnel nor the police could take any action even as hundreds of trees were cut down.

The Karnataka State Forest Industries Corporation had bagged the contract to fell and transp

Greenpeace said on Wednesday it had evidence that Barbie doll packaging comes from Indonesian rainforests, accusing toy manufacturers such as Mattel and Walt Disney Co of contributing to the country's rapid deforestation.

On Tuesday, Greenpeace activists dressed as Ken dolls abseiled down the side of Mattel headquarters near Los Angeles to unfurl a banner saying Barbie packaging contributes to

Today is World Environment Day and many statements have been released for protecting ecology. The industrial revolution in lower areas of the state has also raised many environmental concerns. Many industrial units are coming up on riverbeds.

A survey by The Tribune in various industrial areas in Una and Kangra districts has revealed that many polluting units have come up on riverbeds.

Motion-sensing cameras on the island of Sumatra captured video of two families of endangered tigers in a lowland forest scheduled for destruction, the World Wildlife Fund said Monday. Twelve tigers, including two adult females with cubs, passed in front of the cameras over two months between the Bukit Tigapuluh National Park and nearby mountains.

An agreement has been signed between the Bashundhara Paper Mills Ltd (BPML) and Specialty Minerals Inc of USA at the conference room of East West Media Group Ltd (EWMGL) on Sunday afternoon to produce Precipitated Calcium Carbonate (PCC), an essential ingredient for whiter and better quality paper, where carbon dioxide (C02) will be used as the basic raw material.