India has a diverse range of forests ... from the deserts of Rajasthan in the west to the evergreen forests in the north-east. Climate, soil type, topography, and elevation are the main factors ...

These are among the major facets revealed in the book ‘Forest Types of India Revisited’ released at the Forest Research Institute by the director general of Indian Council of Forestry Research ...

Most forests are green. But a recent study finds that this ‘greenness’ is consistently decreasing across more than 46 lakh hectares of various types of forest in India, particularly in core ...

NEW DELHI, April 30 (Reuters) - Frequent fires are razing forests in India's Uttarakhand state in the north and Odisha in the east amid high temperatures and long dry spells, and the blazes have ...