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.

Industries participating in the Green Visakha Project have been urged by Visakhapatnam district Collector V. Sheshadri to complete the yearly target plantation before the monsoon season ends.

A month after Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav himself wrote a letter requesting speedy approval for Mulayam's dream project of setting up a Lion Safari in Fisher Forest at Etawah, the Union Ministry

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.

Allows Mining In Country’s Best Sal Forest, Elephant Reserve In Jharkhand

New Delhi: The environment ministry’s statutory expert panel, the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC), has bypassed its rules and earlier orders to clear iron mining projects by three private firms in the country’s best sal forest and the core zone of the elephant reserve in the Saranda forest division of Jharkhand.

The much talked-about ‘tree census’ proposal by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has been put on the backburner for want of appropriate guidance.

The Board’s plan to keep tabs on the City’s green cover two weeks ago received good response. But now, it is absolutely clueless on how to go about it.
It is seeking assistance from other departments, including BBMP and the Forest department.

It, however, says that the sample collected during exploration activity should not be used for commercial activity

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has accorded 'green signal' to Oil India Ltd's (OIL's) proposed exploration activities in KG–ONN–2004/1 block in the Krishna-Godavari basin.

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.

Around 250 hectares of forest area has been destroyed due to fires in six community forests in five VDCs—Chade, Sarpani, Garpa, Hiwalcha and Sejawaltakura—in the district for the past three days.

The Kerala Sasthra Sahitya Parishad has urged the central government to reject the recommendations of the high-level working group on Western Ghats headed by K Kasturirangan, claiming that its impl