Ujjain: Haritma Abhiyan, a plantation drive along the banks of the Kshipra took off on Tuesday. Saplings of neem, pipal and banyan trees were planted at gaughat area by energy minister Paras Jain, divisional commissioner MB Ojha and Mayor Meena Jonwal in the interests of environment protection, giving ambitious environment …
Ujjain: Haritma Abhiyan, a plantation drive along the banks of the Kshipra took off on Tuesday. Saplings of neem, pipal and banyan trees were planted at gaughat area by energy minister Paras Jain, divisional commissioner MB Ojha and Mayor Meena Jonwal in the interests of environment protection, giving ambitious environment …
GURUGRAM: While chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar was telling Gurgaonites to plant trees at the inauguration of a 100-acre nature camp in Gurgaon, 100 trees were being chopped off on MG Road on Saturday. Reportedly, around 100 trees were chopped off on Friday and Saturday on MG road. Most of …
MEERUT: Over a year after the then SP-ruled UP government planted five crore saplings in the state in a day and created a Guinness World Record, the BJP-ruled government is preparing to to sow five crore saplings in a duration of three months. The plantation drive, which will begin from …
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 …
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 …
The Social Forestry wing has commenced efforts to transform a portion of the Sainik School campus at Kazhakuttam into a green lung in the city. As many as 35,000 saplings of various species have been planted on 50 acres of land spread across three plots on the school campus. The …
The forest department in Gautam Budh Nagar is in a spot over the felling of a 30-year-old tree in Noida's Sector 21. Monica, a resident of A-42, Sector 21, has lodged a complaint with the forest department on a tree being cut to the root on the premises of her …
The city is all set to get greener. The Noida Authority has set a target of adding nearly 500 acres of green cover to the city in the current financial year. At present, the city's greenery is 18% of its total area, which will rise to 20% with the addition …
NOIDA: To maintain green cover and ensure public participation, the administration has started trees census in Noida. After completion of tree census, the district administration asked all RWAs and individuals to adopt trees and take care of them as family members. "A lot is talked about green cover but we …
SURAT: Owners of a water park were penalized for cutting down 70 trees in Damka village of Choryasi taluka, about 24 km from Surat city. They were imposed a fine of Rs 70,000 by the taluka mamlatdar on Monday. According to the Choryasi mamlatdar's office, management of Joy Fun Park …
As many as 681 trees have been axed to widen National Highway no. 7 near Fazilka. Sources said the trees had to be felled to widen the highway from Rampura village to the border road railway crossing near the BSF headquarters to four lanes. A major part of the process …
Going back to being the city of banyan trees might help Vadodara counter the rising air pollution levels in the city. According to a study conducted by the department of botany at M S University's Faculty of Science, planned plantation in the city can decrease the air pollution by almost …
Activated carbon was prepared from Behda (BEAC), Anjan (AAC), Chinch (CAC), and Bakam Neem (BNAC) leaves. The effects of various parameters such as initial metal concentration, particle size, pH and contact time for the adsorption of Cu (II) on BEAC, AAC, CAC and BNAC were investigated. The amount of adsorbent …
Surkhet, July 28: Around 12,000 saplings of different species have been planted at Deutibajyai Community Forest at Latikoili VDC in Surkhet district. The Deutibajyai Community Forest Users' Group, Latikoili, and Sub-Committee, Charkune, jointly planted the saplings at different period. The forest lies at chure area. Saplings of different species including …
Concerned over rising temperature in the city, the environment wing of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will change in its approach to plantation. Instead of planting decorative and fast-growing trees, the BMC will gor for shady trees from the coming monsoon to create a green canopy on city roads, official sources …
To eradicate dengue, a multi-pronged campaign was launched on Tuesday across six Indian cities with public-private partnership. As part of the two-month long campaign ‘U & Me Against Dengue’, fumigation drive, neem plantation and cleanliness drive would be kicked off in phases across Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune and Ahmedabad …
About 28% of the 30.14 crore trees in the state are neem and gando baval (Prosopis chilensis, formerly called Prosopis juliflora), according to the forest department's tree count. The number of neem trees in the state is 4.55 crore and this accounts for about 22% of neem trees in the …
With monsoon expected to arrive on time, the arrangements to start annual plantation exercise for the year 2013-14 have been put in place by forest department. Soil work has already been done and saplings, 8 to 12 ft high, have been sent to the divisions. The department would start the …
Carbon credit system paying rich dividends to farmers too In a silent afforestation campaign, a private company has successfully raised more than a million trees on private lands in five districts in the State and recorded a survival rate of 90 per cent. Giving details to The Hindu about the …
