Page 2 - Deforestation

Tree transplantation in cities have no method; doesn't help green cover

With poor transplanting methods and shoddy aftercare, trees stand a poor chance of survival, show examples from across India

Brazil to redeploy troops to Amazon to fight surging deforestation

President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree to dispatch Brazilian soldiers to the Amazon in a bid to curb surging deforestation, just two months after withdrawing troops from the region

The real oximeter

The oxygen that we get from nature is about increasing green cover and ensuring that our air - our every breath - is not polluted.

India lost 14% tree cover amid Covid, rainforest destruction up 12% in 2020

The resulting carbon emissions from this primary forest loss (2.64 Gt CO2) are equivalent to the annual emissions of 570 million cars

Infectious disease outbreaks correlated to deforestation, forest conversion

Infectious disease outbreaks correlated to deforestation, forest conversion

How a 10 billion-tree plan is restoring Pakistan's lost forests

Pakistan is among the six countries that face the biggest impact from climate change, according to the United Nations, with risks of floods, melting glaciers and droughts

NGT raps Haryana govt for using forest land to build police training centre

Thr National Green Tribunal Wednesday rapped the Haryana government for using forest land todevelop a police training centre at Bhondsi in Gurgaon. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel directedChief Secretary of Haryana to take appropriate remedial action in accordance with law within three months, including meaningful legal action against the erring officers and ensuring that such illegalities are not repeated. There is blatant violation of law in using forest land for non-forest purposes without requisite prior clearance. No State governed by rule of law ought to shut its eyes to such patent illegalities, the bench said. The tribunal was perusing a report filed byPrincipal Chief Conservator of Foreststhat there is no negligence on the part of the forest officers as correspondence was pending on the subject at different levels. The NGT had earlier perused a report filed by the chief conservator of forest (FCA), Panchkula that a proposal has been moved on ...

Govt proposal to gauge environment impact of projects a disaster: Rahul

Congress MP says EIA 2020 draft 'seeks to silence the voice of communities who will be directly impacted by environmental degradation'

Fires in Amazon rainforest up 28% to 6,803 in July, worrying experts

Environmentalists worry at the rise because August traditionally marks the beginning of the fire season in the region

Letter to BS: Protect Western Ghats from turning into a concrete jungle

Already, many parts of the Ghats have suffered due to urbanisation and no more damage to them should be permitted even for rail links.

Balasaheb wouldn't support felling of trees for his memorial: Sharad Pawar

A senior Shiv Sena leader had recently claimed that Maharashtra Chief Minister and Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray had given "oral orders" against felling of trees for the proposed memorial.

Amazon deforestation highest ever on record, climbs over 100% in November

Destruction of the world's largest tropical rainforest totaled 563 square km (217.38 square miles) in November, 103 per cent more than in the same month last year

How paying countries for not cutting down trees reduces deforestation

In 2009, Norway pledged $250 million if Guyana limited its annual deforestation rate to 0.056% between the years 2010 and 2015

We will not stop construction of Metro shed project in Aarey for now: SC

A bench of justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta sought a status report with pictures on plantation, transplantation and felling of trees in Aarey colony area of BMC

Mumbaikars providing ready-to-grow seed balls to check depletion of forest

Chitra Chauhan set up Beej Box (BB), a platform that provides 10 seed balls for Rs 100, which need to be chucked in the soil to grow a plant

Heart of the Aarey crisis lies in the row over definition of 'forest'

Activists hope Aarey case changes norms at a time of global climate protests

Prohibitory orders lifted from Mumbai's stir-hit Aarey Milk Colony

Normalcy has returned to the area where movement of people and transport has resumed

After chopping 2,141 trees in Aarey, Metro says will abide by SC order

The corporation is executing 33.5-km long Colaba-Speez Metro 3 and has alreay cut as much as 2,141 trees in the disputed site

Aarey protest: Court grants bail to 29 protesters arrested over last 2 days

However, the protesters are unlikely to walk out of the Thane jail on Sunday pending completion of the legal procedure and other formalities

Trees cut down in Aarey Colony as police stand guard against protests

Most of the shops, restaurants and roadside stalls remained closed in the area in view of the imposition of Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), banning unlawful assembly, since Saturday