Tropical forests News

RSS
17 stories

Kyasanur Forest Disease: A ticking health bomb in the Western Ghats

Arathi Menon 12 Apr 2024
Liana with lenticels in Thane, Maharashtra.

Cutting lianas can boost carbon sequestration in forests, finds study

Mark Hillsdon 12 Feb 2024
A couple from a local community harvesting sago palm on the banks of the Tuba river in a village in Maluku province, Indonesia.

Community forest management linked to positive social, environmental outcomes: study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Dec 2023

With more forest fires and an ongoing pandemic, forest dwellers feel the heat this year

Manish Chandra Mishra 28 May 2021

About 43 million hectares of forest lost in 14 years

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2021

Nature in peril as biodiversity losses mount alarmingly, states the Living Planet Report

Soumya Sarkar 16 Sep 2020

[Commentary] The palm oil value chain and India’s links with global deforestation

Neha Simlai 22 Jul 2020

[Commentary] Alternate perspectives on forest fires in India

Bharath Sundaram 13 Feb 2020

Green cover of many Indian states rises but carbon stock declines

Kanchan Srivastava 29 Jan 2020

Most forest fires in India on account of human activity

Kanchan Srivastava 22 Jan 2020

India’s forest cover is rising but northeast and tribal areas lose

Mayank Aggarwal 3 Jan 2020

As India, EU look to increase duties, Indonesia eyes China for palm oil exports

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Oct 2019

Marine plastic pollution has increased tenfold since 1980, says biodiversity report

Mayank Aggarwal 9 May 2019

[Commentary] The vanishing forests of the river

Gopakumar Marayil 30 Oct 2018

Reports say forest cover decreasing, contrary to government claims

T. V. Padma 15 May 2018

Mulai Kathoni: a young man’s dream is now a thriving ‘people’s forest’

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 14 May 2018

Naraikadu: Where citizens conserved a forest for 100 years

Sibi Arasu 24 Apr 2018