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 …
Biodiversity measurement is necessary to evaluate conservation alternatives and understand how to maximize biodiversity returns on conservation budgets. In the economics literature, most studies focus on species level diversity. Existing measures based on species' pairwise genetic differences do not perform optimally. This paper develops two new biodiversity measures within the …
This paper examines the interaction between socio-demographic characteristics (electrical energy usage, population density, and percentage of owner occupied dwellings) and the ability of these characteristics to predict urban leaf area index using ordinary least squares regression (OLS). Urban leaf area index was estimated using a combination of field work, remote …
Reserve forests in coastal areas of Patuakhali, especially in Kalapara and Galachipa upazilas, are gradually disappearing as organised gangs are stealing away timber allegedly in connivance with a section of forest department staff and law enforcers. Besides, a large number of trees are dying due to unknown diseases allegedly caused …
Even as the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) students and teachers on Thursday staged a demonstration against tree felling at the CNR Rao Circle, it became clear that the permission to cut the trees was given on April 10, much before objections were called for. The permission was reportedly granted …
Pune After slamming the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for the increasing instances of tree-felling under its jurisdiction, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday denied permission to the civic body to fell trees, but allowed it to cut branches. Hearing the application of the PMC seeking permission to fell trees, Justice …
Farmers will be able to fell trees standing on their private land not covered under the forest conservation act, with the Supreme Court accepting the state government
A cyclone slammed into parts of Bangladesh and eastern India on Monday, triggering tidal surges and flooding that forced some half a million people from their homes and killed almost three dozen people. Storm officials in coastal Bangladesh moved about 500,000 people to temporary shelters after they left their homes …
MUMBAI: Protests against the Metro rail's second line between Charkop and Mankhurd via Bandra seem to have created a divide between the island city and the suburbs. "Why is an underground route proposed only for south Mumbai and not for the equally important and densely populated western suburbs, between Bandra …
New Delhi: A couple of years after a High Court order said trees along roads should be provided with 6-feet-by-6-feet patches of earth around their trunk to grow, residents of N-Block in Greater Kailasa have finally succeeded in getting the authorities to
Mumbai Taking the controversy over the Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan a step further, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has said the garden has only 10-12 rare trees. A green activist had said that there are 952 rare trees in the zoo. The BMC has also said it will set up …
Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis have fled from fighting in the Swat mountain valley only to be subjected to a cruel onslaught from nature on the plain below. More than 800,000 people have left their homes in the scenic valley of orchards, forests and bubbling streams since government forces began …
LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Thursday put a stay on cutting of trees and demolition inside the Model jail here till May 18. A division bench comprising Justice Pradeep Kant and Justice SNH Zaidi passed this interim order on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed …
Thar Rural Environment and Economic Society, an NGO has urged the authorities to take measures for saving trees in Thar. Directors of the NGO arranged a press conference on Wednesday for creating awareness among people to protect this valuable asset of the area. Kimatrai, Shahab and Ashok Kumar pointed out …
Planter Sime Darby, Malaysia's largest listed firm, has created the first genetic blueprint of oil palms, saying on Tuesday the map will lead to higher output and planting of drought resistant trees. Sime Darby is the first to map and use the oil palm sequence as Malaysia, the world's second …
New delhi : The fierce winds on Sunday afternoon hit some areas of Central Delhi including Rashtrapati Bhawan, Teen Murti, Rajaji Marg, Talkatora, Shanker Road and Pusa Institute harder than the rest of the city. More than 100 trees were either broken or uprooted in these areas. The areas probably …
