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 …
GURUGRAM: Over 200 trees were allegedly felled in and around Mangar buffer zone of the Aravalis on the border of Gurugram and Faridabad in violation of environmental norms in last two days. On Tuesday, a TOI team visited the spot, where around four acres has already been cleared. While nearly …
The Rs. 3,000 crore project is almost complete except for a stretch of five kilometres that has 234 trees as green barriers. Agra: The Supreme Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam to plant 2,500 saplings, maintain and look after them for 10 years in a secure fenced area …
An initiative geared towards the planting of about 20 million trees across Ghana by the year 2028 is to be launched in Tamale, Northern Region. Dubbed the Green Republic Project (GRP), the initiative, according to the initiators, Youth Icons Ghana, is a creative response to the challenge of climate crisis …
Pimpri Chinchwad: A social activist is up in arms about alleged unauthorized tree cutting on land belonging to the state animal husbandry department. Datta Saikar said he will write to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and environment ministe Ramdas Kadam, seeking action against the officials responsible for felling more than 50 …
GURUGRAM: The forest department has prepared an ‘offence report’ (suggesting offence was committed) following an inspection in Anhkeer area near Badkal in the Aravalis, where around 150 trees were felled last week in violation of the Aravali Notification and other green norms. “We found 45 trees were uprooted while about …
Governor Moses Lenolkulal over the weekend led residents in planting 23,000 seedlings to restore a section of a forest in Loikas, Samburu Central, which was destroyed by human activity. The governor noted that livestock were a threat to the seedlings but said county officials would hold meetings with residents to …
The Ministry of Youth has announced plans to form youth groups focused on providing paid services in the protection of environment starting with the next financial year, the Minister for Youth has revealed. Minister Rosemary Mbabazi made the revelation on Wednesday while appearing before the parliamentary Standing Committee on National …
Cities in the United States are increasingly seeing concrete in place of greenery as urban areas lose an estimated 36m trees annually, according to a study from the Forest Service. Tree cover in urban areas has declined at a rate of around 175,000 acres per year, while impervious cover – …
Nagpur: The state forest department is considering to deploy drones, also called as unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs), for pre and post-monitoring of the 13-crore tree plantation drive to be undertaken from July 1 to 31. Recently, drones have found applicability in a variety of study fields, one of these being …
A truly effective forest policy for India must be based on facilitating community-managed forests. The Draft 2018 POLICY undermines this instead. The government has recently released the draft National Forest Policy, 2018 (NFP 2018) for public comments. NFP 2018 intends to replace the National Forest Policy of 1988 (NFP 1988). …
Makueni County is seeking to surpass the nationwide target of having 10% forest-cover by the year 2030 by engaging in an enhanced tree planting exercise that will involve all households in the county. Speaking at the inaugural Makueni County Afforestation Drive on Saturday, Principal Secretary for Planning, Dr. Julius Muia, …
Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh has issued chargesheet to Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Harsh Kumar for permitting illegal felling of trees last year in Mohali district. The chargesheet has been issued in a case where the IFS officer had on November 14 last year written to the Mohali …
PANJIM: As per the latest biennial assessment by Forest Survey of India (FSI), Goa’s forest cover has increased by 19 sq kms in 2017 thus ranking the small state at the 9th position in the country with total 60.21 per cent forest cover. The report published by the Union Ministry …
The National Green Tribunal has issued showcause notice to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) asking why action should not be initiated against it for not maintaining the mandatory green cover along national and state highways. A bench headed by acting NGT Chairperson Justice Jawad Rahim sought responses from …
Railway recruitment goes online to save trees The Railways have kicked off the process of filling up over 88,000 posts. By taking the recruitment process online, the Railways is estimated to have saved 7.5 crore paper sheets, or the equivalent of “10 lakh trees,” according to a senior Railway Ministry …
As species face rapid environmental change, we can build resilient populations through restoration projects that incorporate predicted future climates into seed sourcing decisions. Eucalyptus melliodora is a foundation species of a critically endangered community in Australia that is a target for restoration. We examined genomic and phenotypic variation to make …
Scientists with the USDA Forest Service estimate that between 2009 and 2014, tree cover in the Nation's urban/community areas declined by 0.7 percent, which translates to losing an estimated 36 million trees or approximately 175,000 acres of tree cover annually. Pavement and other impervious cover increased at a rate of …
Chennai: Sucking in carbon dioxide and replacing it with oxygen is not the only contribution of plants. A new study shows that 91 tree species are saviours in a polluted city, clearing the air of harmful sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and particulate matter. The finding shows that green drives in …
GOVERNOR Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State and 19 delegates from African countries have advocated massive tree planting as a panacea to the danger posed by climate change in the continent. They called for overhauling of forest management to save Nigeria and Africa from imminent climate change, saying that the continued …
Though the State Forest Department claims that the forest cover of Odisha has developed in the last few years, by citing an aerial photographic survey, it cannot be accepted as true. Scientific data is always obtained through satellite survey and not from ground measurement practice. The aerial photographic survey always …
