Chhattisgarh coal mining: Chhattisgarh's Forest and Climate Change Minister Kedar Kashyap has justified coal mining and developmental proje...

Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav stressed on the need for generous tree plantation by private sector to reduce the burden on fore...

Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh got the maximum share of the fund.

A pilot project will be launched in select gram panchayats next week and expanded to cover the entire Bastar division in a month.

According to police, a team of BSF while returning from a combing operation spotted a transit Maoist camp at Kadambo forest, bordering to C...

The maximum forest cover reduction in the north-eastern states has been reported by Mizoram (531 sq km), Nagaland (450 sq km) and Arunachal...

The total forest cover in the country is 697,898 sq km, which is 21.23 per cent of the total geographical area of the country.

An ISFR-2013 released recently by the Centre has revealed that forest cover in the state declined by 53 sq kms between 2011 and 2013.

CM Raman Singh expressed unhappiness over several industrial houses having failed to fulfil their target of sapling plantation.

BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh has long been demanding extending the limit up to 40 hectares under the Forest Conservation Act.

"Left-wing extremism districts need to have separate criteria for development and environment protection," environment minister Prakash Jav...

"Chhattisgarh has the largest population of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. About 44 per cent of its area has been covered with fore...

Decrease in dense forest has been reported from Sidhi, Mandla, Satna, Umaria, Jabalpur, Jhabua, East Nimar, Dewas, Chhindwara, Chhatarpur a...

The ministerial panel headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to the environment ministry’s report on identifying “inviolate” forest ar...

According to a new government document, nearly 1.25 million hectares of ecologically fragile areas have been illegally occupied by humans.

India recorded a net loss of 367 sq km of forests between 2009 and 2011 with Khammam district in Andhra Pradesh alone losing 182 sq km of g...