For over 20 million years, the landscape of Europe has been a tree-rich mosaic of grasslands, scrubs and more or less open woodlands with an abundance of wildflowers. This is the conclusion of a new ...

For decades, we believed that outside ice ages Europe was mostly covered by dense forest before the arrival of modern humans. Now, a new study shows that there was far more open and semi-open ...

NEW DELHI: India’s forest cover increased by merely 2.5% between 2010-11 and 2021-22 but the 'very dense forest' component of it grew by 22.7% during the period, indicating effective regeneration and ...