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 …
Tribal farmers in India are being encouraged to plant underutilised indigenous wild trees on their land. This is in response to the fact that, in recent times, farming systems in central India have become less diversified and natural resources are becoming scarcer. Tribal communities living in remote areas are specially …
The documentation of forest wealth in the Himalayas is of great importance because biotic pressure on them. The applied system of management and conservation of forests is of immediate concern for the present and future generation. Such study is useful to know the type of plant community development through succession …
Tribal farmers in India are being encouraged to plant underutilised indigenous wild trees on their land. This is in response to the fact that, in recent times, farming systems in central India have become less diversified and natural resources are becoming scarcer. Tribal communities living in remote areas are especially …
An attempt has been made to quantify the relative abundance and size distribution of oily-droplets in the ambient air of Shillong using an optical microscope. The sampling was carried out at controlled, moderate traffic, high traffic, traffic intersections, industrial estates and elevated specific locations in different seasons during 1998-2000. It …
Shariq Majeed Tribune News Service Rajouri, February 23 A well-knit forest mafia is working closely with some officials of the forest department, who are allegedly felling down dozens of Chir ( forest tree), in Mayardi village near here. This is what locals here say. They believe the forest mafia comprises …
(Top) Curzon Park has more rats than blades of grass; (above) a part of Howrah Maidan resembles a litter bin. Pictures by Pradip Sanyal Team Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee laying claim to the city
London: Tropical trees have grown bigger over the past 40 years and now absorb 20% of fossil fuel emissions from the atmosphere, highlighting the need to preserve threatened forests, British researchers said. Using data collected from nearly 250,000 trees in the world
MUMBAI: Acting on the directives of the Central Zoo Authority (CZA), which were issued during the approval of the Rs 434-crore Byculla zoo makeover plan last year, the BMC has completed a survey to ascertain the number of trees there. The civic body's ambitious modernisation plan for the zoo hit …
Mumbai: A...organise a campaign againt felling of 100 trees for a road The residents of Napean Sea Road on Tuesday carried out a campaign, inspired by the Chipko Movement, to save more than 100 trees in their locality from getting axed because of a road widening project.
Mumbai: A...organise a campaign againt felling of 100 trees for a road The residents of Napean Sea Road on Tuesday carried out a campaign, inspired by the Chipko Movement, to save more than 100 trees in their locality from getting axed because of a road widening project.
MUMBAI: To protest against the BMC's plan to chop and relocate trees for the Nepean Sea Road widening project, school students on Tuesday will hug trees in the area reenacting the erstwhile chipko movement. The widening of this road will require relocation of 54 trees while 99 others will have …
People adopt trees in an MCD park to remember the dead It's a garden dedicated to the dead but bursting with life. Running alongside Delhi's Outer Ring Road between Sarai Kale Khan and Nizamuddin Bridge is a 19-acre park where family members can plant saplings as tribute to their departed. …
State policy limits green cover expansion by S.S. Johl THE Himalayas with its forests act as the lungs of India. Its green cover not only needs to be conserved, but also must be expanded further in terms of the area under trees, density of the forests and the quality of …
COIMBATORE: Thanks to the Tamil Nadu Afforestation Project Phase I, the forest and tree cover of Tamil Nadu has increased to 4.26 per cent from 3.66 per cent even though at the all India level it declined to 2.79 per cent from 3.05 per cent, Minister for Forests N. Selvaraj …
New Delhi: For felling nearly 1,000 trees at Siri Fort Sports Complex to build basketball and squash courts for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) may have to cough up Rs 5 crore as penalty to be utilised for regreening the area. The stringent penalty appears acceptable …
BEHRAMPORE, Jan. 22: A raintree at the heart of Behrampore town was saved from being cut down today by green activists Jatiya Sabuj Bahini and Paschimbango Biggyan Mancho, helped by students from Maharani Kashi Sheri Girl's School and KM College School, who were led by their teachers in the protest. …
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: The government will plant of 70 million saplings all over the country during the Spring Tree Planting Campaign 2009 beginning from the last week of January, officials decided on Monday. Tree planting targets for the Spring Tree Planting Campaign 2009 are: 20 million saplings in Punjab, 8 …
Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court on Monday barred the authorities from felling trees on Bopal-Ghuma road and asked various government departments, as well as Ghuma Grampanchayat, to explain the issue on Tuesday. Acting on a PIL by a resident of Ghuma Shivlal Purohit, moved through advocate Amit Panchal, a division bench …
Utkarsh Anand Posted: Jan 17, 2009 at 0127 hrs IST New Delhi: A city court has recently directed 67-year-old Surender Vasudeva to grow 210 trees as punishment for chopping down 42 in June 2003. More than five years ago, when Vasudeva had been caught by an officer, he had said …
