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 …
Delhi government’s Horticulture Department has informed the National Green Tribunal that it has planted 2,000 trees for chopping 216 trees in a residential colony in north east Delhi. The Horticulture Department also gave an undertaking to the green panel that it would ensure proper maintenance of these trees and look …
Pakhal is home to threatened animals like leopard, wolf, sloth bear and hyena. Hyderabad: Nearly 5,000 trees in the Pakhal Wildlife Sanctuary and the adjoining Jamandlapally Reserved Forest are under threat of being chopped down. The state government has given permission to the National Highways division of the Roads and …
Nagpur: Even though the state forest department’s 2.81 crore plantations on July 1, 2016, has found place in Limca Book, the department has failed to come clean on its ambitious project to plant 100 crore trees (Shatkoti) programme implemented since 2011. According to information sought under RTI by city consumer …
On the overall assessment in the environment status report (ESR) of 2015-16, the environment performance index has slightly decreased in the PMC despite conservation efforts. THE Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) general body Monday approved the Environment Status Report (ESR) for 2016 with corporators urging the civic administration to work towards …
Maharashtra government is set to receive Rs 2,000 crore from the Centre in next three years under Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority and is keen on setting up an ‘eco-battalion’ to increase green cover, Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said. To increase the green cover in the State, the …
Throughout the U.S., trees are dying at an astonishing rate. The reasons for the die-off vary from location to location — drought, disease, insects and wildfires – but the root cause in many of these cases is the same: climate change. The epidemic is even threatening the oldest white oak …
In a bid to protect green cover, the Delhi government on Monday decided to officially recognise 16 trees across the city as its "natural heritage". The decision was taken by Tourism and Culture Minister Kapil Mishra, who holds the interim charge of the Environment Ministry in the absence of Imran …
BENGALURU: Environmentalists and citizens will hit the Nrupatunga Road on Friday morning and embrace the 18 trees marked for felling to facilitate TenderSURE works by the BBMP recently. TOI on September 19 had published an article "Nrupatunga Road will be stripped of 18 trees for TenderSURE work" , exposing the …
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government has sanctioned Rs 15 lakh for conservation of rare, endangered and threatened species in the Sahyadri mountain sub-cluster of the Western Ghats. The government resolution (GR) issued on Thursday stated that the funds will be given to Shivaji University, Kolhapur for utilisation towards the purpose. The …
The National Green Tribunal’s principal bench on Wednesday directed Karnataka to take permission from the environment authority before felling any tree in the Yettinahole Irrigation Project area. The bench, headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar, also asked the Karnataka government to submit proof of planting of saplings for cutting of trees …
A new study by scientists at Stanford University, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, tested whether hotter temperatures and higher carbon dioxide levels that we’ll see post-2050 will benefit the kinds of plants that live in California grasslands. They found that carbon dioxide at higher levels …
DISTRICT forestry officer at Katima Mulilo Dennis Sikabongo said there is a worrisome trend of residents hiring foreigners to harvest mopane trees. Mopane trees are protected in Namibia. Sikabongo last week told The Namibian that residents hire foreigners to harvest the trees illegally in order to sell them, and they …
A plantation drive was initiated by Saraswati Bhuvan Education Society (SBES), where around 150 saplings were planted on one of the hills at Satara area in the outskirts of the city on Saturday. The drive took place on the occasion of Marathwada Liberation Day. A large number of people attended …
A recent study finds the boreal forests of North America may fare relatively well in the face of climate change, and could provide habitat for wildlife fleeing from the south. The boreal biome is circumglobal, ringing the planet's northern regioms. It contains 33 percent of the world's forests, which sequester …
Bias against plants is widespread, and seriously limits conservation efforts, scientists say. While some studies suggest that people’s attraction towards animals may be due to biologically based visual and cognitive processes, others have shown that cultural practices play an important role in shaping people’s relationship with plants. Plant blindness can …
KOLKATA: In the past 12 months, the city has lost over 1,000 full-grown trees, around 100 of them uprooted in storms and the rest hacked down to make way for infrastructure projects. Hardly any attempt was made to replant or transplant them as chopping them down appeared a more viable …
NASHIK: City's green guards have accused the civics body of hacking trees illegally on Gangapur Road under the garb of transplantation. They said that trees in a row that could be retained and the species that could not be transplanted were cut. They sought help of the police to sort …
Word of mouth from nomadic herders led Lucas Silva into Tibetan forests and grasslands. What his team found was startling: Rapid forest growth in tune with what scientists had been expecting from climatic changes triggered by rising levels of carbon dioxide. Actual scientific findings to date, however, had been turning …
NEW DELHI: The environment ministry wants the forest cover to be increased to 20% in National Capital Region (NCR) from the present 6%. It also wants the most polluting industries, which have been put under 'red' category, to be shifted out of populated areas. Sources said the ministry has also …
Over the past decades’ forests in different parts of the world have suffered sudden massive tree mortality. Now an international team of scientists led by researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands has found a way to spot from satellite images which forests may be most likely to fall prey …
