New fruit of jam
SOME HIMALAYAN species of Ficus -- the genus to which the pipal and the banyan belong -- yield fruit that have high nutritive value and are excellent for making into jams and jellies. Scientists
SOME HIMALAYAN species of Ficus -- the genus to which the pipal and the banyan belong -- yield fruit that have high nutritive value and are excellent for making into jams and jellies. Scientists
This book is about a people's movement to save their forests and trees. Chipko movement started in 1970s in the Chamoli district of Uttar Pradesh and saw active participation of women in the forefront.
Arms outstretched on the edge of the cliffs Stand a few trees Ready to fly away with the clouds. They say these deodars once Kissed the Koku nala And embraced the skies so tight That the
Cattle fed with subabul biscuits can produce up to 20 per cent more milk. The fast growing tree also produces useful timber.
To most modern Indian writers, the environment means trees, birds and animals and human beings, in aesthetic or metaphysical communion with them.
Farm forestry was promoted in India in the late 1970s to produce fuelwood for rural consumption. The program was immensly successful in the green revolution region in the early 1980s, but farmers produced
Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha Jayaram's self boosting extravaganza in Madurai has cost the nation an estimated 40,000 litres of precious diesel besides other less easily computable natural resources such as wood for posters, cutouts and barricades
SCIENTISTS at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany in Lucknow and the Indian Institute of Tropical Botany in Pune have found growth rings of tropical trees such as teak (Tectona grandis) and
THE Himalayan yew Taxus baccata is in the news. Researchers at the University of Kansas have found that the yew contains the anti-cancer drug, taxol, in sufficient quantities for it to replace
An Act to provide for the extension and application of, and to amend the Assam Forest Regulation, 1891 (Regulation 7 of 1891) and the Meghalaya Forest Regulation and for matters connected therewith or
Tropical Storm Alma, the first cyclone of the Americas hurricane season, slammed into Nicaragua's Pacific coast on Thursday, its winds toppling trees and ripping roofs off flimsy homes. Torrential rain fell in this colonial western city as Alma whipped up sustained winds near 65 mph (100 kph) and even higher gusts. Power poles were flattened and the former capital of Nicaragua -- home to around 150,000 people -- was without electricity and telephone services, witnesses said.
The present study is comprised of energy value, component energy, total energy content and net annual energy production of 6 years old monoculture plantation stand of Acacia auriculiformis A. Cunn.ex. Benth at Saresar Forest Range situated in the South-East outskirts of Varanasi city. The caloric value and content of different component of sample harvested trees were analyzed.
Lignite power plants belch dust and smoke into the air above the southern Greek town of Megalopolis, but residents resistant to environmental arguments have blocked a scheme to build the country's biggest solar energy project on a nearby hillside.
Does rural fuelwood use and more generally rural biomass use cause forest degradation? This question has been debated in scientific and policy circles. The author presents a framework for defining degradation and sustainable use of forests that might help clarify some of the confusion.
Shimla: Over 9,600 trees will face the axe for laying the transmission line for evacuating power from the 1000 MW Karcham Wangtoo power project in Kinnaur, which is likely to start generation by June this year. In reply to a query during Question Hour in the assembly by Congress MLA GS Bali about exploring the possibility of an alternate route, Chief Minister PK Dhumal today said the permission
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday launched monsoon tree plantation campaign, dedicating year 2009 to environment protection and greener Pakistan. He kicked off the plantation campaign by planting a sapling of araucaria in the lawns of Prime Minister's House. Talking to newsmen, he symbolised the freshly planted sapling with a tree of democracy which he said grew in the hands of Benazir Bhutto. He said forests covered five percent of the land and would be stretched over 6 percent by 2015.
<p>MUMBAI: Every time a match ends at the famed Wankhede Stadium on Marine Drive, it's usually spectators who are held responsible for destroying the green cover in the vicinity.
Having received criticism from various quarters about the use of paver blocks around the roots of trees, the Municipal Corporation (MC) is all set to get a survey conducted of the trees that have been affected. Thereafter, paver blocks will be removed from the roots of the trees. The survey would be done of the trees on the roads within the purview of the civic body.
U.S. start-up Joule Biotechnologies hopes to make commercial amounts of motor fuel by feeding engineered organisms high concentrations of carbon dioxide and sunlight, its top executive said.
Trees might be the source of the ultimate green power and researchers have figured out a way to plug into the power generated by trees. Scientists have known for some time that plants can conduct electricity. In fact, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that plants can pack up to 200 millivolts of electrical power. A millivolt is onethousandth of a volt.