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 …
DEHRADUN: A delegation of the Forest Research Institute of Hungary has proposed 200 different research projects that could be carried out in collaboration with the Forest Research Institute, Dehradun. Besides climate change and plantation forestry, the two research institutes could also learn from each other's experience in controlling pests. Proposals …
NAGPUR: Even though the entire 37-km forest stretch along NH7 between Mansar and Khawasa has been cleared of trees for four-laning, a Mumbai-based environment protection NGO has filed a fresh petition before the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Delhi, challenging the permission granted to National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) under …
Objections to tree felling was hindering road-widening work It has been decided to retain the 490-odd trees that are present along the central median of the Kazhakuttam-Mukkola stretch of the NH-66 bypass. As per official statistics, there are 4,725 trees on the 26.7-km stretch. A joint inspection held on Sunday …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of S.D. Windlesh Vs. Govt. Of NCT of Delhi dated 12/10/2015 regarding tree felling, Shastri Park, Delhi.
The New Delhi-based Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently directed the Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL) authorities to place on record complete documents to show as to how many trees they have cut and how many trees they have planted as afforestation in their extended township. The NRL …
PONDA: A huge patch of thick forest land, admeasuring about 11 lakh sq m, at Ambegal, Panchwadi, is being illegally developed by destroying natural forest cover, Generation Next Goa president Durgadas Kamat has alleged. A part of this forested land near Shiroda, about 4.40 lakh sq m, has already been …
A sprint greening rush, could well put Greater Noida and the Uttar Pradesh stateat large into the Guinness Book of World Records. If the initiative works out smoothly that is. The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority in a combined effort with the district forest department of Gautam Budh Nagar is …
At least Rs 5,000 crore will be spent on providing green cover to the country's National Highways network in the next five years under the Green Highways Policy unveiled on Tuesday. Under this policy, the government has made it mandatory to set aside one per cent of the total project …
Kalangala — Mr Richard Ssegaluma, the owner of Luggo forest in Kalangala District, has asked Buganda Kingdom to pay him Shs9 billion if the kingdom wants to take over the forest. Luggo forest is where a tree called Ddamula is found. It is from this tree that the Buganda royal …
Union Government has launched Green Highways (Plantation, Transplantation, Beautification & Maintenance) Policy-2015 to promote greening of National Highway corridors across the country. The policy was unveiled by Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi. Key features of Green Highways Policy 2015: Promote greening and development eco-friendly …
Rapid expansion of Delhi Metro’s network in the national capital, which has breached the 200 km milestone recently, has resulted in the felling of over 40,000 trees till date while nearly four lakh saplings have been planted to compensate the loss. The figures assume significance in the light of Delhi …
670 km stretch of East-West Corridor The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) seems to be out of step with present-day concerns over climate change and its impact. Only this can explain NHAI's hemming and hawing over re-plantation of more than 1.36 lakh trees it got chopped down in the …
PARIS – Trees, crucial absorbers of climate-harming carbon dioxide gas, may finally be balking at an ever-earlier spring brought on by global warming, researchers said Wednesday. Over the past several decades, trees across central Europe have been steadily sprouting their spring leaves earlier in response to warmer temperatures, they said. …
The Allahabad high court has restrained the state government from felling 8,000 trees in the name of developing 'Lohia Botanical Garden' at Ganga Barrage in Kanpur Nagar. The court also directed the state government to maintain status quo on the project. Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Dost …
Ever wondered what large seed-bearing trees in tropical forests have to do with rodents? A new study has explored the unique bond they share for their very existence. While trees are a source of shelter and food for rodents, the former depend on these animals for seed dispersal. Rodents eat …
An NGO, Vanashakti, has filed a petition in the National Green Tribunal (NGT) seeking removal of all concrete bases in the critical root zone of trees in Mumbai. It has not only challenged the claims made by BMC in its recent affidavit that it had de-concretised bases of 11,790 trees, …
PUNE: The National Green Tribunal's western region bench here has ordered the Pune Municipal Corporation commissioner to develop an apt compliance verification mechanism within three months for giving tree felling or trimming permission. The bench of Justice V R Kingaonkar and Ajay A Deshpande took a serious cognisance of the …
Just like humans, trees too now have identity cards in a Kolkata suburb. As part of a project by Konnagar Municipality to evaluate the crucial role trees play in combating climate change, the authorities have issued identity cards for 28 varieties of trees. "Just like your voter ID card, the …
AURANGABAD: In an age where experts are stressing on the need of increasing the green cover, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has axed over 12,000 trees to widen the Aurangabad-Solapur national highway. Another whopping 13,000 trees are awaiting a similar fate. The NHAI has taken up the project …
Western land managers are ramping up the use of a controversial practice to curtail devastating wildfires: removing smaller trees in fire-prone areas to save the entire forest from going up in flames. The implementation of the method, known as thinning, has increased in national forests during the past 10 years …
