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 ...

South Bengal, Chhattisgarh, MP, Maharashtra had negligible elephants till herds from Jharkhand, Odisha moved in around the ...

India is home to tropical forests, especially in regions that experience heavy rainfall, warm temperatures, and high humidity ...

In the central Indian forest-belt, where large numbers of villages have opposed timber felling in forest patches leased to State-owned companies under existing working plans, forest departments have ...

A national-scale study of the relationship between forest loss and rainfall and temperature trends in India reveals climate change may have contributed to huge declines during last two decades, ...

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 ...