At COP30, focus on wildfire prevention amid record destructionDozens of governments and organizations at COP30 pledged $100 million by 2030 to boost wildfire prevention, focusing initially on the Amazo...
19 Nov, 2025, 12.53 AM IST
World leaders gather for second day in Brazil, seeking solutions to confront global warmingBrazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday sought to mobilise funding to halt the ongoing destruction of tropical rainforests...
07 Nov, 2025, 06.54 PM IST
Banks are financing their own multitrillion-dollar nightmareDespite climate risks, the world's largest banks increased fossil fuel financing to $869.4 billion last year, reversing previous declines. ...
20 Jun, 2025, 05.03 PM IST
A corporate deal that protected the Amazon from soy farming starts to show cracksBrazilian soy farmers are expanding into the Amazon, exploiting a loophole in the Amazon Soy Moratorium that excludes secondary forests. Th...
20 Jun, 2025, 03.45 PM IST
Irony at its peak? Amazon deforestation sparks outrage as eight miles of thick rainforest cut down in Brazil to build 4-lane highway for COP30 Climate SummitBrazil is constructing an eight-mile highway through the Amazon rainforest, leading to concerns about environmental damage ahead of the COP...
13 Mar, 2025, 12.03 AM IST
It’s OK to mine the rainforest for car batteriesEfforts to halt deforestation in Indonesia are lagging, with palm oil plantations presenting a far greater threat than nickel mining.
14 Oct, 2024, 09.45 AM IST
Humanity is on the verge of 5 climate ‘tipping points,’ report warnsA new study warns that five major global tipping points are in danger of being crossed at current levels of warming, leaving humanity at an...
06 Dec, 2023, 08.03 AM IST
Environmental damage from Belt and Road Initiative projects on riseChina's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects have caused significant damage to the environment across all countries where they were impl...
13 Jul, 2023, 09.31 AM IST
Great Nicobar mega project gets environmental nodThe project, which will see around 8.5 lakh trees in pristine rainforests being felled, loss of 12 to 20 hectares of mangrove cover and con...
21 Sep, 2022, 05.44 PM IST
The women guarding India's rainforest 'refugees'As deforestation and climate change ravage India's UNESCO heritage-listed Western Ghats mountain range, an all-female rainforest force is b...
03 Nov, 2021, 11.23 AM IST
From chocolate to soybeans, tropical forests were illegally cleared to make way for everyday foodsIllegal clearance for commercial agriculture was behind the loss of 4.5 mn hectares of forest.
20 May, 2021, 08.19 AM IST
Desperate race against fires in world's biggest tropical wetlandsThere have been a record-shattering 14,764 fires in the Brazilian Pantanal this year, according to satellite data from Brazil's National Sp...
15 Sep, 2020, 09.46 AM IST
No let-up in global rainforest loss as coronavirus brings new dangerTropical rainforests disappeared at a rate of one football pitch every six seconds last year, researchers said on Tuesday, urging countries...
02 Jun, 2020, 10.01 AM IST
COP21: Coral reefs doomed even if climate conference is 'wildly successful'Peter F Sale warned that coral reefs will not be found anywhere on Earth by the middle of the century, even if December's COP21 in Paris is...
17 Aug, 2015, 03.43 PM IST
Asia-Pacific consuming more resources than ecosystem can sustain: ReportAsia and the Pacific is consuming more resources than its ecosystems can sustain, threatening the future of the region’s beleaguered forest...
05 Jun, 2012, 01.55 PM IST
- Human error: Man-made ecological disasters
The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is now about the size of Puerto Rico. It has already reached the marshes of Louisiana. As environmental...
08 May, 2010, 12.15 PM IST
- Asia's rainforests vanishing as timber, food demand surge: Experts
Asia's rainforests are being rapidly destroyed, a trend accelerated by surging timber demand in booming China and India, and record food, e...
27 Apr, 2008, 08.55 AM IST