Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Management of temperate forests has the potential to increase carbon sinks and mitigate climate change. However, those opportunities may be confounded by negative climate change impacts. We therefore need a better understanding of climate change alterations to temperate forest carbon dynamics before developing mitigation strategies. The purpose of this project …
From The Bhopal Aftermath To The Niyamgiri Fiasco, Corporate Muscle Stands Exposed BY BIRAJ PATNAIK A few key events over the past few months have brought to the fore the duplicity of the Indian corporate sector and exposed, if any further exposure was needed, their principle of putting profits before …
SITKA spruce trees of Alaska are proving to be no more than sitting ducks for the budworm caterpillars that are munching their way through the forests. In the past five years, these caterpillars have affected as much as 40,000 hectares (ha) of sitka spruce. Ecologists are now blaming higher temperatures …
FIRST, it was the test tube baby. Now, Canadian scientists are trying to do the same thing with coniferous trees. Assisted conception of conifers, they say, is all set to become the next big thing in forestry. By overcoming barriers between species, their technique could allow plant breeders to produce …
SCIENTISTS have now discovered that huge quantities of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, produced when fossil fuels are burned, are mopped up by boreal forests -- coniferous forests in the northern hemisphere -- which are themselves coming under the loggers' axe (New Scientist, Vol 141, No 1907). It is established …
