2015 Rainforest Challenge India concludes with a 1-2 finish for Team Force Gurkha yet again

Last Updated: Sunday, August 9, 2015, 16:24

The second edition of the seven-day Rainforest Challenge India was everything it had promised to be: Bigger, Badder and Tougher. But then so were the competitors!

Far East`s rainforests shaped by humans for the last 11,000 years

Last Updated: Saturday, January 25, 2014, 10:36

Researchers have shown that the tropical forests of South East Asia have been shaped by humans for the last 11,000 years.

Concerted effort for conservation of rainforests urged

Last Updated: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 18:25

Concerted efforts are the need of the hour to conserve the rich contiguous rainforest patch of Dihing-Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary and its adjoining Upper Assam`s Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts.

Deforestation of Brazil`s Amazon jumps 28 percent

Last Updated: Friday, November 15, 2013, 18:47

The Brazilian government said Thursday that deforestation of its Amazon rainforest rose by 28 percent over the period of August 2012 to July 2013.

Brazil`s greenhouse gas emissions drop

Last Updated: Friday, November 8, 2013, 15:46

Brazil`s greenhouse gas emissions dropped 36.7 percent in the past seven years, according to a study released Thursday by the country`s climate monitoring centre.

More than 400 new species discovered in Amazon rainforest

Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2013, 00:45

A monkey which purrs when contented, a vegetarian piranha, a shy lizard---these are some of the amazing new species discovered over the past four years in the Amazon rainforest.

Amazon rainforest hit hard by megadrought

Last Updated: Monday, January 21, 2013, 14:52

An Amazon rainforest area twice the size of California has been hit hard by a megadrought that began in 2005 and caused widespread damage to the canopy that blankets the dense vegetation, says a new NASA-led study.

Amazon rainforest can survive global warming: Study

Last Updated: Friday, December 14, 2012, 15:34

Man-made global warming may have little effect on some common species of trees in the Amazon rainforest as they date back more than 8 million years and have survived through massive temperature fluctuations, scientists claim.

Fungi to save world from environmental catastrophe?

Last Updated: Friday, May 18, 2012, 18:34

Scientists say they have found a "plastic-eating" fungi in the Amazon rainforest, which they claim could save the world from environmental catastrophe.

Sting and wife organise concert to save Amazon rainforest

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 12:49

Sting and his actress wife Trudie Styler have organised their latest concert aimed at raising money and awareness for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest and its destruction.