Forests

Researchers Develop Highest-resolution Global Forest Cover Dataset to Date

Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a 30-meter resolution forest cover data set that could boost efforts to track deforestation and forest degradation.

Publication Date: 
18/05/2013
Environment News Network
Tags:
Forests, Deforestation, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Land Use, Trees, Remote Sensing
Forests

Vasant Kunj trees: PWD rapped for lying in court

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday pulled up a PWD official for lying to the forum. The official had told the forum that no trees were cut to widen a road in Vasant Kunj, South Delhi.

Publication Date: 
18/05/2013
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Delhi, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Trees, Deforestation
Dams/ Irrigation

Dependence of hydropower energy generation on forests in the Amazon Basin at local and regional scales

Tropical rainforest regions have large hydropower generation potential that figures prominently in many nations’ energy growth strategies. Feasibility studies of hydropower plants typically ignore the effect of future deforestation or assume that deforestation will have a positive effect on river discharge and energy generation resulting from declines in evapotranspiration (ET) associated with forest conversion. Forest loss can also reduce river discharge, however, by inhibiting rainfall.

Publication Date: 
13/05/2013
Claudia M. Sticklera, Michael T. Coeb, Marcos H. Costa & et al
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Tags:
Hydroelectricity, Amazon, Tropical Forests, Deforestation, Hydrology, Climate Change, Land Use, Rivers, Rainfall Pattern, Dams
Forests

Indonesia to extend ban on forest clearing: government

The president of Indonesia, home to the world's third-largest tropical forests and a powerful palm oil industry, has agreed to extend a ban on forest clearing, a government official said on Friday.

Publication Date: 
13/05/2013
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Indonesia, Forests, Deforestation, Tropical Forests, Palm Oil, Mining
Forests

81 trees secretly axed in Naya Qila

In one of the biggest-ever environmental massacres in city's recent history, 81 neem trees, planted eight years ago to protect the age-old NayaQila, were uprooted secretly at night, which activists

Publication Date: 
13/05/2013
Times Of India (Hyderabad)
Tags:
Trees, Andhra Pradesh, Forests, Deforestation
Environment

Green Panel For Allowing Tatas to Raise Output at Sukhinda Mines

An environment panel has recommended that Tata Steel be allowed to expand its production from the Sukhinda chromite mines in Odisha, paving the way for the company to resume operations that were suspended in January.

The expert appraisal committee for mining decided to recommend clearance for enhancing production from the chromite mine and to allow change in technology from open cast to underground mining at its meeting on April 16. The recommendation now awaits a final nod from the environment minister.

Publication Date: 
10/05/2013
Urmi A Goswami
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Orissa, Cuttack (D), Mining, Tata Iron and Steel (TISCO), Central Expert Appraisal Committee (CEAC), Forests, Land, Deforestation, Air Pollution, Water Pollution, Public Hearing, Environment Clearance (EC), Environment
Forests

ESA’s innovative satellite to monitor Earth’s forests

The European Space Agency is set to launch a new innovative Earth explorer satellite in 2020 to map and monitor the global forests – our planet’s most important natural resources.

Publication Date: 
09/05/2013
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Europe, Space Technology, Science And Technology, Forests, Biomass, Carbon Sinks, REDD, Developing Countries, Deforestation, Salinity
Forests

Plantation drive in Kokrajhar

The forest department of Bodoland Territorial Council and the Ecological Task Force carried out a plantation drive today at Bedlangmari under Parbatjhora division in Kokrajhar district.

Publication Date: 
09/05/2013
Telegraph (North East)
Tags:
Forests, Afforestation, Kokrajhar (D), Assam, Land Encroachments, Deforestation
Forests

1,098 trees to make way for infrastructure projects

902 trees will be removed for a single project, Sion-Panvel Expressway.

BMC approved Wednesday felling/shifting of 1,098 trees to facilitate 28 infrastructure projects, including Sion-Panvel Expressway.
Of the 1,098 trees, 902 will be removed by Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) to expand Sion-Panvel Expressway. MSRDC will transplant 535 trees and replant 367.

Publication Date: 
09/05/2013
Alison Saldanha
Indian Express (Mumbai)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Mumbai, Trees, Deforestation, Municipal Corporation, Infrastructure Development, Forests
Forests

25 new saw mills sanctioned in Maharashtra in violation of court order

25 new saw mills have been sanctioned in Maharashtra in violation of a Supreme Court order prohibiting sanction of new mills in view of depleting forest cover in the State, according to Forest Depa

Publication Date: 
07/05/2013
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Forests, Deforestation, Supreme Court

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