DEFORESTATION
Anti-China protests rise in Argentina, the recipient of maximum Chinese FDI in Latin America
In the last fifteen years from 2005 to 2019, Argentina has received maximum investment from China $ 30.6 billion, which accounted for 39 pe...
Joe Biden urged to work with business, China to protect SE Asia rainforest
Joe Biden's election as the next U.S. leader, replacing climate-change sceptic Donald Trump, has raised expectations that protecting Southe...
UN Biodiversity Summit: India to restore 26mn hectares of deforested land by 2030, says Prakash Javadekar
While addressing at the UN Biodiversity Summit on October 01, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar spoke about land-degradation. Ja...
PM's UNGA address will be truly significant as India enters Security Council: Ambassador Tirumurti
The annual session of the UN General Assembly begins on September 21 with the high-level meeting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the...
India provided leadership when some countries pushed aggression under garb of Covid
The remarks by India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti came while addressing the 3rd anniversary of the India-U...
Law and order situation grim in state: Nagaland Governor
"The constitutionally established state government is being challenged on a day to day basis by the armed gangs, who question the soverei...
Earth Struggles To Breathe
India can access carbon credits worth USD 50-60 bn if propagates agroecology: Niti Aayog
In India, there has been a long history of farming that is based on traditional and environment-friendly practices. The state of Sikkim ...
Extinction watch: Undone by fraud, deforestation
The forest owlet is small and stocky but preys on animals up to even twice its own size. . It is found in the shrinking forests of central ...
Indonesia plans to divert palm oil exports to India if EU cuts imports
The world’s largest producer of palm oil, is focusing big on exports to countries like India and China to overcome the likely setback it ma...
Google celebrates Children's Day with a 'Walking Tree' doodle by seven-year-old
This year’s theme of the competition was ‘When I grow up, I hope...'.
Assam, French Development Agency sign 50 million euro agreement to restore forest ecosystems
Today's signing marks the launch of the second phase of Assam Project for Forest and Biodiversity Conservation (APFBC), which aims to refor...
Mumbai's Aarey protests have rekindled the debate over India's forest cover
Protests over the axing of more than 2,000 trees in Mumbai’s Aarey Colony to build a Metro shed have rekindled the debate over India’s fore...
Forest areas being 'finished' due to concretisation, says SC
Amazon forest fires: Missing the forest for the trees
Emerging economies resist steeply reduced emissions norms on the grounds that the West didn’t have to contend with an environmental constra...
Too hot even for Churu: Rajasthan's desert district sizzles this summer
As almost always this season, it's a hot day in this desert district. But with just hours to go before his wedding, Akash Kumar seems to be...
Need infrastructure, but can't deforest our way to prosperity: Jairam Ramesh
Jairam Ramesh said very frequently, the proponents of big-ticket projects are the governments, centre or state, and not the private sector.
Brazil cuts deforestation emissions below 2020 targets
Brazil reduced its emission from deforestation in the Amazon rainforest by 610 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2), compared to its 2020...
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