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 …
MEDICINE BOW NATIONAL FOREST - From the vantage point of an 80-foot (25 meter) tower rising above the trees, the Wyoming vista seems idyllic: snow-capped peaks in the distance give way to shimmering green spruce. But this is a forest under siege. Among the green foliage of the healthy spruce …
Henceforth Forest department will not be able to take the easy route for tree plantations by planting Akasia saplings. The Opposition during Zero Hour on Monday while questioning the government over its programme for planting saplings, suggested that department should go in for other species of trees which would be …
Aug. 1: Political leaders are creating fear among their faction rivals in Anantapur district by hacking trees and blocking borewells. This method of threatening rivals started three decades ago in Putlur and Yellanur mandals of Dharmavaram constituency and subsequently spread to other mandals. Henchmen of Congress and TD leaders used …
Forestry is at the centre-stage of global climate change negotiations. This is because forests have the potential to be a carbon sink as well as a source of carbon emissions. This publication provides a useful snapshot of the carbon value of India
THE protection of forests and rivers is at the heart of protecting the ecology of the Himalayas. But any long-term, sustainable effort must include the concerns of people living near forests and rivers. The strength of the Himalayi Paryavaran Shikshaa Sansthaan (HPSS) is that its work is rooted in an …
Mumbai A tipoff that the BMC was about to chop 113 trees had members of the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Swimming Pool, Shivaji Park, and the Tree Authority rushing to the pool early Friday morning. However, no one turned up to chop trees, said Sunita Godbole, member of the pool. Residents …
Police resorted to mild lathicharge to quell violence as the ruckus over felling a tree for road widening snowballed into a clash in Pathabagepalli village of the taluk on Friday. An undeclared curfew prevails in the tension-gripped village where a platoon of armed police has been stationed,in addition to local …
This study by the World Agroforestry Center shows that almost half of the world's farmland has at least 10 percent tree cover. Says that farmers would do more to preserve trees if their trees were included in international climate change negotiations mitigation schemes. Agroforestry, the inclusion of woody perennials within …
New Delhi: As tiling and concretising of the immediate area around tree roots goes unchecked in the city, the environment department has written to heads of various civic agencies, asking them to take action against this practice. In 2000, the UD ministry had issued several guidelines for greening of urban …
Lignite power plants belch dust and smoke into the air above the southern Greek town of Megalopolis, but residents resistant to environmental arguments have blocked a scheme to build the country's biggest solar energy project on a nearby hillside. Local game hunters, angry that an earlier plan to grow a …
Anil S KOCHI: At a time when the government is taking up various initiatives for protection of trees across the state, more than 500 trees are going to be felled soon as part of constructing a centre for unloading and packaging of containers in connection with the Vallarpadom Container Terminal …
U.S. start-up Joule Biotechnologies hopes to make commercial amounts of motor fuel by feeding engineered organisms high concentrations of carbon dioxide and sunlight, its top executive said. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company, which launched on Monday, hopes to make up to 20,000 gallons per acre of fuel a year by late …
Tension prevailed at Pathabagepalli village in Bagepalli on Thursday when an argument broke out between the villagers and the land owner over a tree felling issue. The tree which was the bone of contention being felling using JCB machine at Pathabagepalli village in Bagepalli on Thursday. DH PhotoUnder the Employment …
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has lauded the Punjab Horticulture Authority for taking steps to preserve old trees as part of eco-culture in Lahore. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the WWF praised efforts of PHA director-general Dr Raheel Siddidui for disallowing the cutting of an old maple …
Patrick Barkham Britain is home to an amazing number of ancient trees; but they are slowly being killed off by neglect and ill-treatment. Above crumpled grey roots like the enormous feet of a prehistoric elephant, leaves form a vaulted roof as grand as a cathedral. Huge limbs stretch out for …
The Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report by National Engineering Service has revealed that the zero point interchange will affect about 25,000 trees, which is 5 percent of the total trees in study area. The report said that although the project will have significant positive impacts there are certain negative impacts …
The Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report by National Engineering Service has revealed that the zero point interchange will affect about 25,000 trees, which is 5 percent of the total trees in study area. The report said that although the project will have significant positive impacts there are certain negative impacts …
Neem, the most revered Indian tropical tree, with medicinal properties has turned too bitter for the BBMP. Sources told Deccan Herald that neem, known as Bevu in Kannada, is no more a darling of the BBMP
INTACH on Friday organised a half-day consultation of experts on the need to give special attention to the tree wealth of the city, with special reference to heritage trees. The main issues taken up were criteria for heritage trees, methodology for listing and modalities of implementation. Mr Daniel Bar-Ness, a …
