On an official mission to India, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Carlos Fávaro, seeks to strengthen diplomatic relations and enhance...

The world's economies are interconnected, so effective action requires an international lens. The trade flows that sustain consumption in o...

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, of the 4% of the 250,000 to 300,000 known edible plant species, only 150-200 are used b...

Sharma outlined the UK's presidency of the summit across four key areas of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees, enabling communities and...

From the floods of Houston to those in Gujarat, from Niger to Mumbai, climate change may not be the central trigger, but it may be aggravat...

Monsoon has weakened in the North-Eastern and North-Central India due to large-scale conversion of forest land to crop land, according to a...

Only 25 per cent of the original habitats in the eastern Himalayas remain intact and hundreds of species in the region face threat.

The latest regional species discovery report--'Hidden Himalayas: Asia's Wonderland', a World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) Living Himalayas initiat...

Community rights under the Forest Rights Act could transform the lives of millions of forest dwellers, but only if the bureaucracy is pushe...

The government's recent report announcing an increase in forest cover looks more like a case of the state agency playing the slippery slope...

The Centre’s report warns that forest loss tilts the ecological balance, contributes to climate change and man-made carbon-dioxide emission...