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 …
General Juan Domix Peron's idea of introducing beavers in Tierra del Fuego, the snowy archipelago on the tip of South America, half a century ago seems to have gone seriously awry. In 1946, someone in the late president's navy came up with the idea of colonising Tierra del Fuego with …
THE Dangs, one of the few forests in Gujarat that boasts of green cover, is facing imminent danger of annihilation. Massive deforestation due to population pressures and rapid industrialisation are the two major reasons for the destruction of forests. The Gujarat forest department is fighting tooth and nail to check …
MORE than 2,229 lakh trees in 40 coastal villages of four tehsils of Kutch district were totally destroyed during the cyclone which which swept across Gujarat in July this year. More than 7,000 people died in the cyclone, including 4,400 salt pan workers at the Kandia port. About 13.5 lakh …
RAMPANT deforestation by the timber mafia, poor mapping systems and inadequate maintenance of roads in the region may be the reason for recent landslides in the hills of Uttar Pradesh. People familiar with the region's ecology say that landslides are the result of years of indiscriminate deforestation in the Himalaya. …
Harvest of terror Come harvest time and tense villagers begin preparing for the next elephant raid Like the other farmers, Durlabh Rajbhansu is afraid. As harvesting season approaches, the people of Nopam, a tiny village near Tezpur in northern Assam, steel themselves for the worst. For the last 10 years, …
What in your opinion were the contentious issues in the deliberations on sinks at the Subsidiary Body on Scientific and Technical Advice (SUBSTA)? Most issues were contentious as many parties had no clue what the issue of "sinks" was all about. This showed neglect or ignorance regarding climate feedbacks on …
TROPICAL forests have been disappearing at alarming rates for the past three decades. Farmers, ranchers and timber industries have denuded millions of acres, and only in the past few years has the resultant damage to the ecosystem has become agonisingly clear. A new study by botanists at the University of …
The orang-utan, one of human's closest relatives, may be extinct in the next 20 years if the uncontrolled destruction of Indonesia's forests continues in its present manner, according to a report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). The loss of forest habitat and poaching for bush meat are leading to …
India will get assistance from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for conservation and sustainable management of the coral reef ecosystem off the coast of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. In this regard, the department of economic affairs, the ministry of environment and forests and UNDP have recently entered into …
the prime minister, A B Vajpayee, has said that his government will approach the Supreme Court to lift the interim ban on tree felling and the movement of already cut timber in the forests. Speaking at a meeting with northeastern chief ministers in Delhi on May 8, Vajpayee told the …
The tigers in Nepal may be extinct in the wild by 1999 unless India and the other range states declare an open war on poachers and illegal traders and throw in all the resources required into the battle, says Peter Jackson, a cat specialist. Deforestation, loss of habitat and a …
India lost about 5,550 sq km of forest cover in the last two years. According to the State of Forest Report 1997, brought out by the ministry of environment and forests, forest cover has gone down from 638,879 sq km in 1995 to 633,397 sq km in 1997. Of the …
a new report by the World Watch Institute, a Washington-based research organisation, suggests that deforestation in the Ganga Valley has been causing floods and damaging us $1 billion worth of property annually, in recent years. Over the last 30 years, half the forests have been lost, especially in developing countries …
a stretch of barren hilly land is called changar in Himachal Pradesh. Since it lacks irrigation, agriculture on changar is difficult. About 427 sq km land in the basin of the river Beas in Kangra district is changar . It is spread over 99 pancha yats and 570 villages where, …
eighteen environmentalists have been arrested in Vancouver, Canada, for opposing the logging of some of the remaining pristine rainforest valleys in the Great Bear Rainforests. The uk is playing a major role in forest destruction as it continues to import timber and pulp from British Columbia's ancient temperate rainforests to …
throwing the Wildlife and Forest Conservation Act to the winds, Uttar Pradesh government has authorised the construction of a road deep inside the Ramnagar forest division of the Corbett Tiger Reserve. The road running from Ramnagar to Patkot will cut through prime forests, tiger habitat and migratory corridors of elephants. …
In Brazil's Amazon, in the 30 years following the 1960s, the forests retreated before the onslaught of a government determined to hand over a land without people to its people who did not have land. Huge tracts of forest land in the Amazon vanished, sandwiched between the sawmills and the …
Supply of potable water has been affected by contamination of water sources in most developing countries. Rivers, lakes and groundwater have been polluted by industrial effluents, pesticides and fertilisers from agricultural run-off and urban waste. According to "Critical Trends', brought out by the United Nations, chronic water scarcity is common …
the Bastar forest scam in Madhya Pradesh (mp) , involving forest encroachment and felling of trees with officials' tacit support, has taken a new turn with the arrest of a social activist who was closely associated with the investigations. The activist, Ratneshwarnath , was part of the team that prepared …
The Supreme Court restrained all the state government's and their "functionaries' from allowing felling of trees in the reserved forests, even if they are diseased. The order came in the wake of a report about the state of forests in different parts of the country that showed an alarming picture. …
