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 …
DEHRADUN: The Times of India organised the TOI Green Drive, an initiative to 'plant a breath of fresh air for Dehradun' in Clement Town on Monday. The first day of the campaign, which aims to plant over 10,000 trees in a period of three days, saw approximately 3,000 saplings being …
KARACHI: Fifty-seven companies operating in Pakistan clinched environment excellence awards and four organisations, including DHA Karachi, won best tree plantation awards for their innovative work on environment conservation and cleanliness. The awards were presented to the winners at the 13th Annual Environment Excellence Awards ceremony and conference on Making our …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nida Doon Vs. State of Haryana & Others dated 06/09/2016 regarding felling of 158 trees from Sectors 17 and 18 of the divided road of Gurgaon, Haryana. National Green Tribunal directs that felling/cutting of the trees shall be preceded by …
To tackle the issue of increasing carbon dioxide in the air and maintain an ecological balance, the forest department of Madhya Pradesh is planning to grow grass on open forest land. For the first time, a detailed grass and fodder management plan is expected to be included in the current …
Ancient woodland is under threat from invasive rhododendron, experts have warned as they revealed the “aggressive” weed now covers woodland the size of 150,000 football pitches. The plant has spread rapidly and covers 98,700 hectares - roughly 3.3 per cent - of Britain’s total woodland, a report by the Forestry …
Many forest ecosystems have experienced recent declines in productivity; however, in some alpine regions, tree growth and forest expansion are increasing at marked rates. Dendrochronological analyses at the upper limit of alpine forests in the Tibetan Plateau show a steady increase in tree growth since the early 1900s, which intensified …
In a bid to restore sandalwood tree cover on Jawadhu Hills, the Forest Department is planting 1.1 lakh saplings in Vellore district. Raising the saplings in its nurseries, the department has already planted 20,000 trees this year. Collector S.A. Raman, who inspected the Amirthi Forest along with District Forest Officer …
MANGALURU: Delivering a mighty blow to the state government on the Yettinahole project, a month before the final verdict, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the Kaveri Niravari Nigam limited (KNNL), the principal licence holder for the Yettinahole river water lift project, not to cut anymore trees at the …
DEHRADUN: The Forest Survey of India (FSI) has devised a new grid-based assessment of the national forest inventory (NFI) which will yield data about the status of forests of the country in a span of just five years, as compared to the 20-year time-span in which it was earlier prepared. …
HOHHOT - China is home to 69.3 million hectares of artificial forest, the most in the world, following more than six decades of afforestation work, said Zhang Jianlong, head of the State Forestry Administration. Total forest acreage has grown to 3.12 billion mu (208 million ha) from 1.24 billion mu …
The Haryana Forest Department has signed an agreement with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for planting saplings on national highways across the state. The agreement was signed in view of shortage of land the department faces for planting saplings. In 2013-14, 836 hectares of forest land was used …
Meerut: Scores of environmental crusaders on Sunday assembled near Sports Stadium Crossing here and held a protest against the chopping of an old Neem tree during a drive to widen a road a fortnight ago. After the protest, the people paid homage to the decades-old tree. Vijay Pundit, a member …
DEHRADUN: The state government has marked over 10,000 trees on the 30 km stretch between Harsil and Gangotri, which will be cut down for widening of road. The environmentalists are terming the exercise as a major ecological disaster in the eco-sensitive zone of Garhwal Himalayas. "It is ironical that on …
TRICHY: The palm tree, known for its usefulness from top to bottom, is rapidly diminishing in numbers. Once thousands of people survived on the produce of this tree. To safeguard the trees and maintain diversity, a group of people in the city have started to sow palm seeds along the …
BHOPAL: National Green Tribunal (NGT), central bench, Bhopal, on Wednesday asked Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) to turn up with the reply over the issue of tree felling within a week. A petition pertaining to the rampant felling of trees on Jail road, from police headquarters (PHQ) Jehangirabad to Bhopal Haat, …
Seven years after the Centre’s approval, the forest lands in Himachal Pradesh can now be used for developmental works like building schools or community centre on fulfilling certain conditions. “Under Forest Rights Act 2006 section 3(2), Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India, has agreed that for 13 developmental acts …
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court on Wednesday issued a notice to the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and other concerned authorities in response to a petition filed by farmers from Gandhinagar district against the road-widening project. Farmers from Valad village and nearby villages have filed the petition. They have …
Dutse — The Jigawa State government has flagged off this year's tree planting campaign against desertification with the distribution of 2.5 million seedlings to the people of the state. The state governor, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, who stated this in Dutse, said the seedlings for this year's programme were mainly made …
AHMEDABAD: The Urban Local bodies which have a green belt ranging from 0.2% to 4.8% of the Geographical area have made no effort to increase the green cover despite the government deciding to enhance the green cover in the cities by five percent. The Government in order to increase the …
The high court has asked the AAP government to give information about the number of trees that were felled for widening of the Mehrauli-Mahipalpur road in south Delhi. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva recently asked Delhi government and its public works department (PWD) to file an affidavit listing the number of trees …
