In a warming India, the Forest Rights Act is no longer just about land ownership. It sits at the crossroads of climate action ...

For many years, I lived in the Indian city of Chennai, where the summer temperatures can reach up to 44° C. With a population ...

Climate change caused forest cover in India to decrease dramatically from 2001-2018, shows a recent study from researchers at the University of Reading. With tropical and subtropical forests ...

An American woman who was found chained to a tree in a forest in western India has now admitted that she shackled herself, just days after blaming her “husband” for her ordeal. Lalita Kayi Kumar, 50, ...

According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, we are losing 130,000 square km of forest across the globe on a daily basis. If ...

India, Dec. 31 -- India's State of Forests Report (ISFR) 2023, a biennial report published by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) under the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change is ...

A recent study by the IIT Kharagpur has uncovered a contradiction in India's environmental story. While national reports highlight significant greening, the health of India's forests is actually on ...

In 2021, the village of Kodalpalli in Odisha’s Nayagarh district became one of the few places in India where the country’s landmark Forest Rights Act of 2006 (FRA) was translated into formal rights ...

CHENNAI, India, Feb 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - During the bone-chilling winters of Panna in central India's Madhya Pradesh state, Janaka Bai needs at least three bundles of firewood each week to ...