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 …
London: Cheer up! The cacao tree from which chocolate is extracted is not going to die out in the near future, as was feared by the industry, suggests a new reassuring study that finds that cacao tree is much older than previously realised. The main problem faced by the chocolate …
Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often incorporated into land-use policy and conservation planning. We overlay spatial distribution models with historical and projected deforestation to show that at least 36% and up to 57% of all Amazonian tree species are likely to …
A tiny beetle could wipe out Britain’s ash trees much faster than the established ash dieback disease which is expected to eventually kill millions of the trees, according to the government’s leading authority on pests and pathogens threatening UK forests. “The emerald ash borer is moving uncontrolled through Russia. It …
Officials Say Works Delayed, Should Only Report Numbers To Forest Dept The public works department has moved the government with a plea that it should be made exempt from applying for tree cutting permission for projects. Citing delay in projects due to first having to apply to the forest department …
PUNE: By jumping into the fast lane to grow more industrialised and in the frenzy to construct highways and dams, Maharashtra has sacrificed close to 6,724 hectare forest land in the last three years, recent data from the ministry of environment and forests has revealed. The state has 20% forest …
Seeking a review of the policy to achieve 33 per cent forest cover in Delhi, the PWD, in its letter, pointed out that Delhi’s population is expected to rise from 18.2 million in 2011 to 23 million in 2021. Increasing the green cover in the capital from 20 per cent …
A municipal councillor from south Delhi landed in trouble before the National Green Tribunal after South Corporation accused him of cutting trees illegally. The green panel has now directed the local tree officer to investigate the charges against Jangpura councilor Ravi Kalsi and take action. NGT acted on a plea …
Air pollution today is the most important aspect of environmental study as every progress by mankind has deteriorated the air quality. Artificial technologies have proved insufficient to address this problem. So a better and a natural way to combat the air pollution is plantation. However, all plants do not show …
The Delhi government on Thursday decided to get the capital's first-ever tree census done by a "third party", essentially an NGO, to arrive at a factual figure of the number of trees in the city. The decision comes months after the Delhi high court observed that the national capital is …
While this will be the first tree census conducted by the Delhi government, government officials said, that the NDMC had conducted a similar census within its jurisdiction earlier. Newly-inducted Environ-ment Minister Imran Hussein, on Thursday, announced that the Delhi government will hand over the task of conducting a tree census …
It’s not just the polar bear. Animals and plants in Earth’s other extreme environment—the desert—are endangered by rising temperatures. At Joshua Tree National Park in California’s Mojave Desert, these tough, gnarled plants are threatened by climate change. A survey of the park found few or no young trees in roughly …
Swathes of native forest are in collapse, conservation groups say, with neglect and a lack of pest control to blame for the crisis. Forest and Bird said drone footage released today showed dead and dying native trees across Northland. The group said more than 1000 square kilometres of forest was …
The Madras High Court Bench here on Wednesday directed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to plant about 20,000 saplings along the four-lane highways in the southern districts within two days and file a compliance report by Friday evening. A Division Bench of Justices R. Sudhakar and V.M. Velumani …
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 …
Taking cognizance of the illicit felling of a deodar tree despite a ban, the Himachal Pradesh high court on Tuesday summoned top state government officials. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Mansoor Ahmad Mir and Justice Tarlok Singh Chauhan directed the forest secretary, the deputy commissioner of Kangra, the chief …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Eshita Baruah Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 28/10/2015 regarding heavy pruning of the trees in Jangpura Park, New Delhi.
THE Centre plans to revive 2.5 crore hectares of degraded forests through public-private participation (PPP) to meet its climate change plan target of reducing carbon emissions by about 35 per cent by 2030. This was revealed by Union Minister for Environment Prakash Javadekar on Saturday while talking to journalists. Javadekar, …
Planting trees along Britain's 242,334 miles of upland rivers and streams could help save natural environments from future climate change damage, researchers reveal in a new study. This mitigation could also save cool-water species that call these riverbeds home. A recent study in the Adirondacks found that the growth decline …
In all, 250 green kikar (acacia) plants were allegedly damaged by a private mining company in Dokhera village in Nangal Choudhary recently. Taking a serious note of the incident, the Forest Department has served a notice on Xandy Mines Company asking it to pay a penalty as per norms. The …
Trees that have their roots embedded in concrete of roads and footpaths are to be particularly taken note of to ascertain their health. Mumbai : The National Green Tribunal has directed the BMC to conduct a survey of all trees in Mumbai particularly the ones that have their roots embedded …
