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 …
Sam Lawson is the founder of Earthsight, a London-based nonprofit whose mission is to promote the use of in-depth investigations to expose environmental and social crime, injustice and the links to global consumption. The views expressed here are his own. Why helping civil society investigate illegal timber is about much …
The fast negative progress of global warming cannot be saved by all tress, as there are those 'unhealthy' ones that contribute damages too. Not all trees can save the planet. This is the new study published in the journal Ecology Letters stating that not all trees can help counter the …
ROURKELA: IN a bid to mitigate the impact of industrial pollution, Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), under its pilot initiative, has started working on carbon sequestration (removal or segregation) project through afforestation. The RSP, a blue chip steel manufacturer of SAIL, is moving ahead with implementation of the project to assess …
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - North American forests will not fight climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide at levels once hoped for because the trees may not grow big enough, a study said on Wednesday. The new research challenges previous studies that said trees could grow larger due to …
Mass tree die-offs are sparking worries of fire in California’s Sierra Nevada range. An outbreak of bark beetles, along with persistent drought in the state, have caused many evergreen trees to wither and die. The damage spread rapidly through the mountains in the fall of 2015 after favorable spring conditions …
Lagos — The Lagos State Commissioner for Environment, Dr. Babatunde Adejare, has disclosed that the state government has so far planted six million trees to combat climate change. Adejare made the disclosure at the Coastal Cities At Risk Project Media Workshop held in Lagos on Thursday. He said the Lagos …
Forests have an acclaimed role as a carbon sink needed to tackle climate change. Less known is how their contribution can be scaled up even after a tree has been logged. A new FAO publication, Forestry for a low-carbon future: Integrating forests and wood products in climate change strategies, offers …
Forests have an acclaimed role as a carbon sink needed to tackle climate change. Less known is how their contribution can be scaled up even after a tree has been logged. A new FAO publication, Forestry for a low-carbon future: Integrating forests and wood products in climate change strategies, offers …
GURGAON: In a big blow to plantation drive to increase green cover in the region as many as 3,000 saplings, planted during ongoing plantation drive of forest department, was uprooted in Mohabatabad area of Aravalli in Faridabad district. The plantation was uprooted two days back to clear around 8 acre …
BABATI, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Magdalena Gwasuma ducks carefully into a small, dark cage at the back of her house, where rows of fresh oyster mushrooms sit on wooden shelves. “I didn’t know anything about growing mushrooms at home - we used to get them from the forest,” the …
For the first time, this United Nations report details the number of trees, forests and how the land is used in the world’s drylands. The findings could be used to track progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and help fight climate change. Drylands cover about 41 percent of the Earth’s …
Mumbai: For a city that is struggling to save it's shrinking green cover, here's more bad news: Mumbai lost an alarming 230 trees in 17 days in June, out of which 81 were maintained by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, while 149 were from private premises. The figures raise serious doubts …
Punjab lost almost two lakh trees every year to development works in the past five years (2011-12 to 2015-16). This was stated by the state Forest Department in an affidavit filed with the National Green Tribunal in a case against the move to axe 96,000 trees to widen the Zirakpur-Bathinda …
Dehradun: Incensed at the inordinate delay of eight years in construction of a road to their villages, hundreds of villagers of the Sarbadiyar region in Uttarkashi cut over 700 trees to express their protest at their villages not only being cut off from the rest of the world but also …
Hyderabad: Questioning the purpose of taking up plantation on one hand and resorting to indiscriminate felling of trees on the other, the Hyderabad High Court has taken up as public interest petition (PIL), a letter written by journalist Kingshuk Nag on the wisdom behind the plan to axe 3,100 precious …
There are more different kinds of trees in the Amazon rainforest than anywhere else on earth, but the exact number has long been a mystery. In 2013, scientists estimated that the number of species was around 16,000--no one had ever counted them all up, though. In a new paper in …
The Boreal forest fires in Canada that began in early May are still ravaging the woods. These can affect the global climate, according to NASA study and Forrest Hall. The fires consume millions of acres of trees and burn the soil on the forest floor. Peter Griffith, the founding director …
Telangana government would launch an ambitious program to plant 25 lakh saplings in a single day in Hyderabad on Monday, as part of a state-wide 'Haritha Haram' tree plantation programme. While the municipal corporation and Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority are playing a lead role in its implementation, over 100 state …
After prohibiting construction and repair within one metre radius of trees, the National Green Tribunal has directed Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to submit progress reports on deconcretisation and protection of trees in the national capital twice a year. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar also directed the …
A recent drought completely shut down the Amazon Basin's carbon sink, by killing trees and slowing their growth, a ground-breaking study led by researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Leeds has found. Previous research has suggested that the Amazon -the most extensive tropical forest on Earth and one of …
