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 …
Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo inspecting a peatland clearing that was engulfed by fire in Banjar Baru in southern Kalimantan province on Borneo island. If Britain and other European nations are to fulfil forest protection goals, they must ban the use of palm oil for biofuel and tighten oversight of supply …
Mukono Municipality mayor George Kagimu has asked Parliament to respond to a petition where authorities protested the plan to degazette Namyoya Forest Reserve in Goma Sub-county, two years ago. Mr Kagimu says unscrupulous individuals have taken advantage of the degazettement plan to claim a bigger part of the forest as …
A parliamentary committee yesterday demanded the government immediately bans logging and revokes loggers’ licences. The National Assembly Committee on Environment, chaired by Kereke Mbiuki (Maara), asked President Uhuru Kenyatta to declare logging a national disaster because it has devastating consequences. “The wanton environment degradation through unchecked logging is a crisis …
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo’s environment ministry said on Tuesday it had reinstated thousands of square kilometers of logging concessions in its equatorial forests, a move environmentalists fear could cause huge volumes of greenhouse gases to be released. The forests cover peatlands believed to contain billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide …
The northeast India, which also includes Meghalaya, once considered being the last vestige of hope for a green environment is losing its vital forest cover in contrast to the rest of the country, according to the latest report by the Forest Survey of India. The India State of Forest Report …
The Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission, Mr Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie has reiterated the commitment of the Commission to help reduce carbon emissions in Cocoa-forest landscapes through the Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme (GCFRP). Speaking during a courtesy call on him by the Global Director of Mondelez International, Mr Afriyie …
GOVERNMENT has warned that the country is at risk of a timber deficit if the excessive cutting down of trees is not curbed. Speaking when she officiated at a tree planting exercise at Kaunda Square Secondary School yesterday, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Jean Kapata said the excessive cutting …
When Malaysia’s biggest plantation company Sime Darby leased 220,000 hectares of lush forest in northwest Liberia in 2009, executives said they had found a much needed new frontier in global palm oil development. Undulating hills, a tropical climate and plenty of untouched land made the West African country’s interior ideal …
Tropical forests all over the world are at risk from climate change and deforestation for arable land. Scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Thünen-Institute compared losses due to deforestation with those that would result in extreme climate change scenarios in Ecuador. Although global warming is likely …
Recently published research in the journal Environmental Research Letters found that setting a price of $20 per metric ton (about $18/short ton) of carbon dioxide could diminish deforestation by nearly 16 percent and the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere by nearly 25 percent. The pair of economists calculated …
Government has urged tobacco farmers to seek other sources of energy when curing their crops in order to preserve Zimbabwe's forests. The country loses at least 330 000 hectares of forests annually due to various activities, including agriculture, domestic firewood and land clearance. Zimbabwe has more than 100 000 tobacco …
One of the most important anthropogenic influences on climate is land use change (LUC). In particular, the Amazon (AMZ) basin is a highly vulnerable area to climate change due to substantial modifications of the hydroclimatology of the region expected as a result of LUC. However, both the magnitude of these …
Roads spread destruction and deforestation in the Amazon, now Peru, driven by neoliberal imperatives, plans a highway for one of the regions most sensitive forests This vast wilderness of 2m square km of rainforests and savannahs is formed of the headwaters of three major river basins, the Juruá, Purús, and …
The United Nations Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD Programme) has trained about 800 people from forest reserved Communities of Cross River state on the effects of climate change. The residents were trained at a capacity development workshops on REDD+ organised for five communities of Agoi …
India has been ranked at a low 177 position in the Global Environmental Performance Index (EPI), that places countries on how well they perform on high-priority environmental issues The 2018 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) finds that air quality is the leading environmental threat to public health. The tenth EPI report …
Rainforest Foundation Norway and Cerulogy launched a report, ‘Driving deforestation’, looking at the impact of expanding palm oil use due to biofuel policies around the world. The report goes directly into the heated debate in Europe and the rest of the world about the use of palm oil for biofuels. …
Pope Francis issued a ringing defence of the people and the environment of the Amazon on Friday, saying big business and “consumerist greed” could not be allowed to destroy a natural habitat vital for the entire planet. Francis, who has made the environment and climate change a focus of his …
MUMBAI: Even before the first month of 2018 has ended, 806 trees in the city are on the block - to be cut or transplanted. Most trees identified for cutting or transplantation are for various infrastructure projects — Metro, road and nullahwidening as also for obstruction of traffic, slum rehabilitation …
President Macky Sall on Thursday suspended all authorisations for logging and ordered an overhaul of Senegal’s forestry laws after a massacre connected to the illegal trade in timber. In a statement, Sall said he had instructed the government “to suspend until further orders all authorisations for logging and to immediately …
MMRCL hasn’t informed HC about additional trees to be axed: Bhathena. Mumbai: Around 753 additional trees will be axed to make way for the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro-3 line, according to a tree activist Zoru Bhathena. In an undertaking given to the high court earlier, the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) …
