Last Updated: Thursday, October 10, 2013, 19:44
Unless new technological advances increase yields, or strategies to decrease food consumption are introduced, a switch to global reforestation remains unlikely.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 15:44
A Naxalite was Wednesday killed in an encounter with security personnel in Maoist-hit Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh.
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 22:23
The Karnataka government will implement the second phase of the Karnataka Sustainable Forest Management and Biodiversity Conservation Project, aimed at expanding forests, over the next eight years.
Last Updated: Friday, September 27, 2013, 13:56
Three suspected Naxal commanders were Friday apprehended by security forces after a raid in the Cherla forest in this Andhra Pradesh district.
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 17:56
Government is considering introduction of forest certification as it will help in their sustainable management, a senior official said Tuesday.
Last Updated: Monday, September 16, 2013, 14:48
A new study has revealed that tropical forests speed their own recovery by capturing nitrogen and carbon faster after being logged or cleared for agriculture.
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 21:40
A top official in Tibet has vowed to put environmental protection first to protect the world`s last "pure land".
Last Updated: Friday, September 6, 2013, 15:46
The National Green Tribunal gave two weeks time to the Ministry of Environment and Forests for filing its response on a plea seeking implementation of rain water harvesting systems at all DMRC stations.
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 19:29
Day after a CoBRA battalion jawan was killed in an encounter in Naxal-hit West Singhbhum district, security personnel Wednesday recovered as many as seven powerful landmines from the area.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 18, 2013, 21:49
With a forest cover 47.3 percent of its total geographical area -- more than double the national average of 21 percent -- Sikkim is India`s greenest state, official data shows.
Last Updated: Monday, August 12, 2013, 12:15
The tropical rainforests of Andaman islands are under threat not from being finished off by an invasive species of deer and elephant, a research says.
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 31, 2013, 18:20
They look like normal eucalyptus trees up to 65 feet tall with a trunk girth of about 19 cm and towering over their peers in an evaluation trial on the foothills of Himalayas.
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