<p><strong>ENVIRONMENT</strong></p> <p>The new report issued on September 27 by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says with much more certainty that humanity is causing climate change.
The National Green Tribunal Tuesday directed the forest department of Delhi government to give an exact count of trees on the Vikaspuri to Janakpuri stretch here on outer ring road where an elevated road
A delegation of representatives of the Chambi gram panchayat, along with other farmers organisation of the town, met Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh during his visit to the town. They demanded that the
The Kathmandu Metropolitan City is in the dark about the status of implementation of a greenery project that it launched in January, 2012. Introducing the project, the civic body had said owners of
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Citizen for Green Doon Vs. State of Uttarakhand & Ors. dated 10/12/2013 on the issue of felling of healthy trees under the garb of being "dangerous".
The people of Sutlej valley have rejected the draft study report on the cumulative environment impact on the river basin presented by the Indian Council for Forestry Research and Education, Dehradun, on behalf of the Himachal Pradesh government. Local representatives and environmentalists said over the weekend that a month’s notice should have been given for the public consultation after sharing the executive summary of the environment impact assessment (EIA) report under the Environment Impact Assessment Notification. They complained that a short notice of just four days was given to the stakeholders.
Worried over deforestation, Siliguri residents resort to this novel way Residents of Siliguri district in West Bengal came together to “save mother nature” through a tree wedding ceremony on Saturday. Marriage rituals were performed for intertwined trees, adorned with traditional attires of saree and dhoti, representing man and woman.
The Kochi Metro Rail Ltd (KMRL) is drafting a “consultative tree planting plan” and has identified about 10 locations in the city to plant saplings. The agency, which is drafting the project along with the district tree cutting permit issuing committee, environmentalists and other green agencies, will soon implement the project.
BBMP yet to constitute Appellate Authority as ordered by court The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) axed 3,000 trees last year and many of them have been reduced to stumps overnight. This, when the civic body did not have the legal backing to do so.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi has lauded the efforts of the 135 INF Bn (Territorial Army) eco task force and exhorted the force to plant more trees to make earth greener. "At a time when climate change
