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 …
Taking its green initiative to the next level, TOI on Tuesday conducted a walkathon as part of its Green Drive campaign. The walkathon from Times House at Bahadurshah Zafar Marg till the ITO signal had volunteers educating people about the rising level of pollution and the importance of planting trees. …
The Uttarakhand Government has decided that the State Cabinet will pass a proposal for green felling of pine trees in the mountainous regions of Uttarakhand and then approach the Supreme Court with this to get some relaxation in the ban on green felling above 1,000 metres altitude. State Forest and …
The flames that claimed the lives of three firefighters, injured four others and burned 200 homes also inspired an outpouring of volunteers who have been invited for the first time in state history to help battle the blazes. As Washington state's wildfires burned into the record books Monday, calls for …
AURANGABAD: Expressing concern over the destruction of the only heronary in Aurangabad, environmentalists and bird lovers in a memorandum submitted to environment minister Prakash Jawdekar demanded that strict action be initiated against those involved. Following the chopping off of the trees at Aurangabad railway station, the NGO Shrushti Sanwardhan urged …
NOIDA: To maintain green cover and ensure public participation, the administration has started trees census in Noida. After completion of tree census, the district administration asked all RWAs and individuals to adopt trees and take care of them as family members. "A lot is talked about green cover but we …
PWD's road widening project from Andheria Mod to Fortis Hospital appears jinxed. Where work originally started on this stretch in February 2013, the project is not likely to be completed before mid-2016. It was scheduled to take about six months for completion. The latest in the series of troubles for …
Moshi — The campaign against tree felling in Kilimanjaro got a huge boost as the Minister of State in the Vice-President's Office (Environment), Dr Binilith Mahenge, called upon law enforcers to be more strict and called upon other regions to emulate Kilimanjaro. Dr Mahenge said here that he was happy …
The influence of carbon dioxide (CO2) and soil fertility on the physiological performance of plants has been extensively studied, but their combined effect is notoriously difficult to predict. Using Coffea arabica as a model tree species, we observed an additive effect on growth, by which aboveground productivity was highest under …
US researchers say it has become "virtually impossible" to plant genetically modified trees in any part of the world. They argue that the GM trees are desperately needed to deal with an upsurge in forest diseases and pests. What they term "misguided" concerns about genetic engineering have slowed progress to …
GHAZIABAD: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has formed a committee to study the level of concretization in the city and frame guidelines on the issue. The step has been taken following a petition filed by a city-based environmentalist, Akash Vasisth, on the "mindless" concretization undertaken by the GDA despite government …
Should there be re-plantation on the central verge of the national highways as a means to combat air pollution? The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday sought a report on the issue from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, and the Ministry …
Delhi Government is mulling conducting the city's first ever tree census with an aim to protect its green cover. "Public Grievances Commission had recently recommended us to carry out tree census in the city... The plan is still on the anvil. We will announce shortly the outline of the census. …
Waste dumped by locals has taken up the space created after removing concrete around tree trunks following another NGT order. The National Green Tribunal has taken cognisance of the growing dumping of garbage around trees and has asked the BMC to take action against those found dumping garbage at such …
The historical orogenesis and associated climatic changes of mountain areas have been suggested to partly account for the occurrence of high levels of biodiversity and endemism. However, their effects on dispersal, differentiation and evolution of many groups of plants are still unknown. In this study, we examined the detailed diversification …
KOLKATA: The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Eastern zone bench, on Thursday, wanted to know from state authorities why a decision was taken to chop down over 8,000 full grown trees on a green verge in Durgapur. The NGT also passed an interim order, directing that no further degradation of ambient …
The National Green Tribunal has imposed a cost of Rs 5 lakh on Ghaziabad Development Authority for cutting 12 trees for construction of 17.6 km-long cycle track. "Cutting 12 Eucalyptus full grown trees would certainly have adverse impact on the environment and ecology of area. In terms of Section 15 …
Taking suo motu cognisance of a public interest litigation petition, the Madras High Court has called upon officials of the Road Transport and Highways Department to inform the court whether any impact study has been conducted over felling of thousands of trees while laying roads for a project. Hearing the …
MEERUT: With the monsoons nearing a close, the forest department's annual plantation drive is in poor shape as most other government departments are behind their targets. Every year, the forest department runs a plantation drive during the monsoons - from mid-June till September - and encourages other departments to participate …
National Green Tribunal (NGT) chairperson Justice Swatantra Kumar came down heavily on the Uttar Pradesh government for several mismanagements in the Taj Mahal's eco-sensitive zone and Yamuna floodplain zone on Monday. The NGT bench, taking cognizance of a TOI report about an ex-DFO who allegedly ordered felling of 4,000 trees …
Seeking to bring students closer to nature and inculcate in them a sense of urgency to protect environment, the Union environment and forests ministry on Monday launched the 'School Nursery Yojana' which would involve children in raising saplings in nurseries created inside their school campuses. Ten thousands schools will be …
