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 …
Forest Department yet to buy land for compensatory plantation The government is all set to axe thousands of trees for widening the Chandigarh-Ludhiana road, but the Forest Department has no land available for compensatory afforestation. Replying to a query, Forest and Labour Minister Chunni Lal Bhagat said efforts were on …
Minister for Finance and Civil Supplies Etala Rajender called upon the local bodies’ representatives, especially sarpanches, to play a responsible role for the success of Haritha Haram programme’s mass tree plantation programmes in rural areas. Participating in an programme to raise awareness about the Haritha Haram among representatives in Peddapalli …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Aditya N. Prasad & Others Vs. Union of India & Others dated 24/06/2016 regarding threat to the trees in NCT Delhi region as a result of reckless digging with special reference to New Friends Colony. The allegation is that the …
The number of trees in California’s Sierra Nevada forests killed by drought, a bark beetle epidemic and warmer temperatures has dramatically increased since last year, raising fears that they will fuel catastrophic wildfires and endanger people’s lives, officials said on Wednesday. Since 2010, an estimated 66 million trees have died …
Agra: The Uttar Pradesh government aims to create a world record by planting five crore saplings in a single day across the state in second week of July. Of these, around 6.7 lakh saplings will be planted in Agra alone. The forest department has been gearing up for the mega …
Pollution Control Board of Telangana, in coordination with Famous Premier League and Vajra Events, will host a Go Green Cricket Cup T-20 match between FPL XI and PCB XI on June 26 at Lal Bahadur Stadium here in aid of environment and tree protection in the State. Raghu, member of …
Kolkata: The government has received clearance from the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) to launch a tree plantation drive on the banks of the river in Bengal. A coordination meeting was held on Saturday for all the government departments concerned to work out the overall plan; the drive will …
Nagpur: While a lot of noise is being made over the two crore plantations, there seems to be no control on rampant illegal destruction of existing tree cover. The city has lost over 200 fully-grown trees on a vacant land in Chhatrapati Nagar. According to officials of Nagpur Municipal Corporation's …
The process will be finished in a day or two and a notification with the newly fixed buffer area of the park will be out in a month Much under the scanner by the officials as well as the activists, the eco-sensitive zone of the KBR National Park is all …
Ecologists studying the effects of climate change have completed a new study that details which US trees will have the toughest time adapting as our world heats up. The findings suggest that while some species will thrive in a warmer environment, like red hickory and blackjack oak, some species - …
Streets lined with gold? Not exactly, but a new report from the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station estimates trees lining Californian streets and boulevards provide benefits to municipalities and residents worth $1 billion. "Structure, Function and Value of Street Trees in California, USA," published in this month's issue …
The Bombay high court on Thursday directed the BMC to spell out its policy to increase the green cover in Mumbai city. Expressing concern over the issue of depleting tree cover raised in a public interest litigation, a division bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Amjad Sayed sought to …
European countries can be forced to cull olive trees to stop the spread of a deadly bacterium, the European Union ruled on Thursday, sparking concern in a grove-dotted region of Italy. The EU court rejected an appeal from an Italian tribunal over a European Commission order to destroy all olive …
Jaipur: Taking cognizance of environment degradation and depleting green cover, it's been almost one year that Rajasthan High Court suggested Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) to set up an electric crematorium. But so far despite being among the 20 smart cities in the country, Jaipur has no such plans in the …
The Indian contingent from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) commemorated World Environment Day, marked on June 5, by launching an afforestation drive, according to UNIFIL. (Source: Website) The Indian contingent from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) commemorated World Environment Day, marked on June 5, …
Thousands of trees were destroyed, many charred, in the violence that erupted last week following exchange of fire between police and squatters at Jawahar Bagh in Mathura. Uttar Pradesh horticulture department officials said the number of trees burnt or destroyed could be more than 5,000, mostly fruit-bearing varieties. Environmentalists in …
Gurgaon: Around 51,000 hectares of land in Haryana have been classified as natural conservation zones (NCZ) by the state's five NCR districts, more than double the 22,000 hectares marked in the first draft that drew criticism and was rejected. The fresh draft has also put another 11,000 hectares of land …
10 lakh new trees and 5 lakh saplings to be planted across the city Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said his government has asked the land-owning and green agencies in the national Capital to carry out a tree census in their jurisdiction while announcing that 10 lakh new trees and …
Questions are being raised over the state government and the forest department sanctioning the felling of over 15,000 trees - like jacaranda, fir and gulmohur -- ostensibly for the widening of the Rishikesh-Uttarkashi road (leading up to Gangotri) which locals say is wide enough and does not really require any …
The National Green Tribunal has chided the Environment Ministry and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for cutting trees for widening of Rampur—Rudrapur—Kathgodam section of NH—87, which connects Uttar Pradesh with Uttarakhand, and restrained them from chopping any tree further. “There shall be no tree felling on the stretch …
