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 …
Effective conservation of the endangered tiger depends upon reliable knowledge of factors driving genetic differentiation and population connectivity. Connectivity models frequently use resistance surfaces not optimized with actual movement or genetic data which limits reliability. Our aim is to use empirical data on genetic diversity of tiger populations to optimize …
Bonde made the call during commemorations of the World Environmental Day at Cowdray Park in Bulawayo at the weekend. “It is wise to follow the Command Agriculture template and as we speak we have 834 000 plants that are available. We are organising an indaba for the regional bloc which …
The forests in eastern Zimbabwe supply the country with wood and most of its fresh fruit. But the removal of large numbers of trees and use of fire to clear land have caused a lot of damage to the area. Officials say Zimbabwe lost more than 1.5 million hectares of …
MMRCL told the high court that it will give an undertaking that it has obtained all the necessary permissions. Mumbai: The Bombay HC has given permission to the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) to cut down mangroves for the construction of underground metro station at the Bandra Kurla Complex …
Nyumanzi in the northwestern Uganda district of Adjumani was a vast grassland with shrubs and trees, parts were forested. Several kilometers away is Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, the largest refugee settlement in the world. The settlement was formerly grassland and forest. This phenomenon is replicated in other districts in this …
As electricity becomes more costly, more families may turn to firewood and charcoal for heating and cooking, critics fear LUSAKA, June 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Zambia’s energy regulator has approved a 75 percent boost in the country’s electric rates, a move environmental groups fear could push more households to …
Lusaka – The Southern African Development Community is losing an estimated $16-million per month through the rampant smuggling of the Pterocarpus Chrysothrix trees, used for fine timber and medicine mostly in the Far East Asia. This financial loss and threat posed to the slow growing species has prompted Zambian President …
ISLAMABAD, June 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Each winter, a familiar sight crops up in Islamabad and the nearby bustling city of Rawalpindi: people queuing outside firewood shops, waiting their turn to fill bags or plastic baskets with wood to burn when their household gas supply is disrupted. Gas shortages …
BENGALURU: A large number of city residents held a candlelight vigil at 6.30 pm at Sarvodaya ABC Centre on Wednesday. They were protesting against the tree cutting planned at Govt Veterinary College Campus on Queen’s Road. Tree experts say the premises is a mini-forest with nearly 100 trees in the …
Environmentalists rued the proposal to cut down at least 4,600 trees — mostly deodar and broad leaf trees which are important for absorption of water — spread over 94 hectares for the construction of a 150-km all-weather two-lane road between Tanakpur and Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand by 2020. Executive engineer of …
The Supreme Court has asked citizens who oppose the cutting of trees to place their grievances before a two-judge committee of the Bombay High Court and the High Court has lifted the stay on cutting of trees. Mumbai: Thousands of trees will be cut in Mumbai for the Metro project …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday put an end to the controversy surrounding the ‘Girivalam’ road-widening project, by concluding that the expansion proposal cannot be deemed illegal or against the preservation of nature. However, the tribunal imposed certain conditions, reducing the width of the proposed roads and forbidding the …
The deforestation of the Atlantic Forest, Brazil's second most important forest, grew 57.7% in a year, from 2015 to 2016, when the biome lost 29,075 hectares, or 29 thousand football fields. Figures were released Monday (May 29) by the SOS Mata Atlamp;acirc;ntica Foundation and the National Institute for Space Research …
Herald report makes activists sit up and take note of Govt's 'haphazard' planning VASCO: Following a report that appeared in Herald highlighting that 600 trees have been identified by the PWD which may be felled to widen NH17A connecting Cortalim to Vasco via Chicalim, environmentalists and green activists along with …
This overview assembles existing evidence on the ways in which tobacco affects human well-being from an environmental perspective – i.e. the indirect social and economic damage caused by the cultivation, production, distribution, consumption, and waste generated by tobacco products. It uses a life cycle analysis to track tobacco use across …
American food and beverage giant PepsiCo is under fire from environmental campaigners Rainforest Action Network (RAN) for using palm oil tainted with deforestation and labour abuses, but has dismissed these claims as a “strategy of misinformation”. The report, released in late April and titled ‘Profits over People and the Planet, …
Kamwenge — Kamwenge District leaders and conservationists have expressed concern over an impending environment catastrophe if the ongoing rampant degradation of the environment in the district is not curbed. There is uncontrolled tree cutting, charcoal burning, encroachment on wetlands and human activities that have led to a drop in water …
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has approved a two-year extension to a moratorium on issuing new licenses to use land designated as primary forest and peatland, the environment and forestry minister said on Wednesday. This is the third extension of the moratorium, which was established in 2011 under the previous administration …
Nearly 130 million hectares of forest -- an area almost equivalent in size to South Africa -- have been lost since 1990, according to a recent report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. A new study of 67 less-developed, malaria-endemic nations titled, "Anthropogenic forest loss and …
DAR ES SALAAM Tanzania (Xinhua) -- Tanzania is now facing alarming environmental destruction caused by haphazard felling of trees, a senior official said on Sunday. “Almost every Tanzanian is using one cubic meter of firewood or logs as daily energy source which is equivalent to more than 50 cubic meters …
