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 …
MUMBAI: The most number of trees were chopped illegally in the city in 2008-09 were in Malabar Hill, Pedder Road, Nepean Sea Road, according to a report of the civic gardens department. Chembur and Andheri come second. There were 16 police complaints against tree cutting in D ward, and 14 …
Six-laning Jalandhar-Karnal highway For the six-laning of national highway-1 from Jalandhar to Karnal, chopping of trees has started. Thousands of trees have been cut down from Khanna to Sahnewal as widening of the GT Road is on. Many more trees are waiting to be chopped. As many as 43,900 trees …
Facing serious space constraint coming in the way of its expansion plans, the Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) will approach the High Court to seek permission for felling of trees so that construction could be undertaken to have more accommodation. With serious space limitation, expansion plans of the premier medical …
While conservation biologists debate whether to move organisms threatened by the warming climate, one forester in British Columbia is already doing it.
The Moran community, which is predominant in Tinsukia district, has taken the unique step of declaring the Hollong tree as their traditional tree, a move that is likely to conserve the species from rampant depredation. The DFO of the Doomdooma Forest Division, S C Khatoniar is quite hopeful that the …
Aila left in its wake a trail of destruction but efforts at regeneration are already on at the Agri-Horticultural Society of India (AHSI) at Alipore. The garden is gearing up for the impending monsoons when propagation is at its best and will rear upto 80,000 saplings this season through various …
Insects like green. Tree leaves know. They change colour according to a Native American myth, four hunters killed the Great Bear in heaven. It was autumn then. The bear
ICTs and Indian Social Change: Diffusion, Poverty, Governance by M Vijaybaskar, Ashwin Saith and V Gayathri, Sage, Rs 750 This is a book for techno-idealists. It has much on the impact of information and communication technologies on the lives of people. It traces how technologies work on urban and rural …
AHMEDABAD: Housing societies who have deviated from their commitment of maintaining trees on their premises after obtaining Building Use' (BU) permission are in for a flak. For the first time in many years, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC)'s town planning department will impose penalties on societies who have cut down …
MUMBAI: The BMC takes great pride in its annual tree plantation drive but a reality check shows less than 10% of the saplings--planted spending lakhs of rupees--survive. The reason, said experts, is lack of expertise. This year, the civic body has already planted over 650 trees--306 in the western suburbs, …
Pune As many as 685 trees will have to be felled or replanted to implement the proposed metro rail project in Pune. The detailed project report prepared by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) says these trees come in the way of the Metro corridor and they will have to …
The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) got a breather with the High Court on Saturday refusing to stall the ongoing works from R V Road to South end circle. Hearing a petition by City based NGO Hasiru Usiru, the court has also refused a stay on the felling of …
The High Court division bench headed by Justice V Gopala Gowda will take up the matter relating to cutting of trees and granting of land inside Lalbagh Botanical Garden to Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), on Friday. However, the court refused to interfere in the vacation division bench order …
Mumbai Monsoon storms, besides bringing rain to the city, are often accompanied by winds strong enough to uproot trees. In order to minimise cases of trees getting uprooted this year, the Tree Authority had in April issued a notice to the BMC ward offices asking them to build a 2-foot …
The Brazilian government and the sugar cane-based ethanol industry are hoping to head off complaints about harmful environmental and labor practices by investing in socially responsible production methods, speakers at the 2nd Ethanol Summit 2009 said on Monday. Brazil's Cane Industry Association (Unica), which is sponsoring the biennial event on …
An evaluation was made on the performance of three tree species viz. Alnus nepalenis D. Don. Melia azadirachta A. Juss. and Gmelina arborea Roxb. and their interactive effects on crop yield during establishment period. The seedlings of all tree species survived better under cropped than un-cropped plots.
The government is going to prepare a master plan to increase the country's forest coverage up to 20 percent in next six years, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday while inaugurating the three-month countrywide 'National Afforestation Movement'. The government is working on the plan to increase the forest coverage by …
