While releasing the report, Javadekar said that there is an increase of 42.6 million tonnes in the carbon stock of the country as compared to the last assessment of 2017.
The Supreme Court has allowed for felling of trees on the condition that saplings be planted as part of the afforestation drive, under a strictly monitored process
In order to reduce environmental pollution and to improve the air quality, Miyawaki forests will be grown in the city, said S.P. Velumani, Minister for Municipal Administration, Rural Development and Implementation of Special Programme.
Abdul Vahid, who lived in Kagajidevera area of the district, went missing on Monday evening after he left home to attend a wedding in Alod village, Station Hose Officer (SHO) Shivraj Gurjar said.
The court's remarks came while hearing the Uttar Pradesh government plea seeking a blanket order for quashing all the orders passed by Forest Settlement Officers from 1994 onwards, allowing industries to operate in the Renukoot-Mirzapur reserve forest area.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the administration, Haldiram Education Society (HES) and Jaypee Infratech Limited (JIL) on Wednesday for this, the officials said.
The scientists uncovered fossil fragments of 13 long deceased trees dating from the end of the Permian Period, some 260 million years ago.
Large scale conversion of forest land into crop land is a major reason behind the weakening of monsoon in the north-eastern and north-central India, a recent study conducted at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Tokyo (Japan): A nationwide joy and relief came out on Friday after knowing that a 7-year-old Japanese boy remarkably survived after being abandoned in a forest by his parents who wanted to teach him a
Lucknow/Dehradun: After several sorties by MI-17 choppers trying to douse the forest fires in Uttarakhand were aborted at many places on Sunday owing to "poor visibility and thick smoke", the state government was pinning its
Dehradun: Taking a serious note of the raging forest fires in different parts of the state, Uttarakhand Governor KK Paul has decided to double the number of personnel engaged to douse the flames from 3000
Los Angeles: Actors Brad Pitt and Shia Labeouf reportedly stayed in a forest for two days so they could bond well and act perfectly in upcoming movie "Fury".Directed by David Aye, "Fury" is based on
Hyderabad: A Forest Range Officer (FRO) was killed and seven other officials were injured in an attack allegedly by a group of villagers in Andhra Pradesh's Nizamabad district, police said today. The incident occurred at
Shimla: The population of monkeys, who have become nuisance for farmers and people in Himachal Pradesh, has come down by 55,000 as per the latest census conducted by the state forest department, Forest minister Thakur
Jorhat (Assam), June 30: Four persons, including a minor, were seriously injured in an attack by a leopard at Titabor Forest Range in Assam's Jorhat district, forest department sources said today.The attack by the full-grown
Guptkashi, Jun 29: MARCOS (marine commandos) of Indian Navy who went in search of survivors inside Triyuginarayan forest on Friday morning, found burnt wood inside indicating that some survivors had been there a day or
Guptkashi, Jun 29: Commandos of MARCOS (marine comandos) failed to find a single human being inside the Triyuginarayan forest in course of search operation conducted yesterday and today. The commandos found dead bodies of horses
Bangalore, June 24: Karnataka's state forest department Monday launched a operation to send back a herd of 15 wild elephants, including four calves, into the forest corridor from where they strayed into the city's outskirts,
Kottayam, Jun 10: In an effort to save his pregnant wife and their child, a man walked through forest for about 40km in heavy rains carrying the ailing woman on his shoulders to get her
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