Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a 30-meter resolution forest cover data set that could boost efforts to track deforestation and forest degradation.

Industries participating in the Green Visakha Project have been urged by Visakhapatnam district Collector V. Sheshadri to complete the yearly target plantation before the monsoon season ends.

A month after Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav himself wrote a letter requesting speedy approval for Mulayam's dream project of setting up a Lion Safari in Fisher Forest at Etawah, the Union Ministry

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday pulled up a PWD official for lying to the forum. The official had told the forum that no trees were cut to widen a road in Vasant Kunj, South Delhi.

The much talked-about ‘tree census’ proposal by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has been put on the backburner for want of appropriate guidance.

The Board’s plan to keep tabs on the City’s green cover two weeks ago received good response. But now, it is absolutely clueless on how to go about it.
It is seeking assistance from other departments, including BBMP and the Forest department.

In one of the biggest-ever environmental massacres in city's recent history, 81 neem trees, planted eight years ago to protect the age-old NayaQila, were uprooted secretly at night, which activists

NEW DELHI: More than half of common plants and one third of the animals could see a dramatic decline this century due to climate change, according to research published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Researchers from the University of East Anglia looked at 50,000 globally widespread and common species and found that more than one half of the plants and one third of the animals will lose more than half of their climatic range by 2080 if nothing is done to reduce the amount of global warming and slow it down.

Mumbai: Alleged malpractice in the shortlisting of a contract to be awarded for the city tree census has come to the fore with the Tree Authority members claiming that garden department officials h

New Delhi: Public Works Department on Wednesday told National Green Tribunal that no tree has been cut by it or its contractor for a road widening project on the Andheria Mod-Mahipalpur Road.

The project was stopped in February after residents approached the court against the reported unauthorized felling of trees by PWD.

902 trees will be removed for a single project, Sion-Panvel Expressway.

BMC approved Wednesday felling/shifting of 1,098 trees to facilitate 28 infrastructure projects, including Sion-Panvel Expressway.
Of the 1,098 trees, 902 will be removed by Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) to expand Sion-Panvel Expressway. MSRDC will transplant 535 trees and replant 367.