Food and fuel scarcity is rising high day-by-day. There is a vast gap between the demand and supply of these necessary products. We need an urgent balance to check the fast growing inflation. For that, more of farmlands are required to grow food...

The great apes, namely the gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and the orangutans are our closest genetic relatives. But that didn’t stop us from slaughtering them as usual! Now, reports suggest that orangutans are likely to be the first ones to...

In a sudden display of urgency and anxiety the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity has announced that it is targeting zero deforestation in the ASEAN region by 2020. It has correlated the recent food crisis to the loss of...

According to a paper published in the journal, Science, by authors, Dr Pep Canadell from CSIRO and the Global Carbon Project, and Dr Michael Raupach from CSIRO, better management of the world’s tropical forests has vital scope for...

22 million tons of carbon will be released from Papua New Guinea’s forests this year as a result of logging – approximately the equivalent of the annual output of all carbon from the cars in...

We all are aware of the deplorable sate the world’s forests are in. Unreasonable, unplanned felling of trees for commercial purposes has rendered the forests scanty. The worst brunt of this mindless deforestation has been faced by tropical...

Brazil will combat rising deforestation in the Amazon by sending extra federal police and environmental agents to areas where illegal clearing of the rain forest jumped dramatically last year, officials said Thursday.Authorities will monitor the...

The environmental damage caused by rich nations disproportionately impacts poor nations and costs them more than their combined foreign debt, according to a first-ever global accounting of the dollar costs of countries’ ecological...

A white man is distraught at the way big, bad and unscrupulous Chinese businesses are destroying the world’s crystal clear environment. Bill Miller in the desmogblog raves against the Chinese habit of buying wood from poorer nations in South...

A deal has been reached at the climate talks in Bali to tackle green house emissions from deforestation. The deal has been agreed but is yet to be approved formally and this insists on the countries to start working on the groundwork...