Forests

Green cover falls in state

The green cover in the state has declined by 554 sq km. This was revealed on Wednesday in the report of the Forest Survey of India.

Publication Date: 
09/02/2012
Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
Tags:
Surat (D), Gujarat, Forests, Survey of India, Ahmedabad (D), Trees, Afforestation, Forest Conservation, Forest Policy
Forests

Fund not released: Medicinal plantation project stalled

Indore: Even after getting a whopping Rs 18 lakh for the medicinal plantation under the compensatory afforestation project, the proceedings for the work has been stuck due to the budget yet to be r

Publication Date: 
08/02/2012
Free Press Journal
Tags:
Indore (D), Afforestation, Medicinal Plants, Madhya Pradesh, Agriculture, Health, Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management And Planning Authority (CAMPA)
Water Resources

Roorkee IIT to help standardise silt-monitoring technology

Shimla: In an initiative backed by World Bank, the Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project has tied up with the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, for the standardisation of the silt-moni

Publication Date: 
06/02/2012
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), Research Agencies, Science And Technology, Hydrology, Watershed Development, World Bank, Afforestation, Dams, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
Climate Change

Enhancing carbon stocks and reducing CO2 emissions in agriculture and natural resource management projects

Agriculture production in different regions is facing complex challenges such as the impact of climate variability and change, land degradation, increased competition for water, increasing labor and input costs, and loss of carbon stocks in agricultural lands.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2012
Ravindranath. N.H, Indu K Murthy, Ranjan Samantaray
The World Bank
Tags:
Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Emission Targets, Emissions Inventory, Agriculture, India, Environment, Land Use, Agroforestry, Climate Mitigation, Green House Gases, Afforestation
Environment

Asia’s wicked environmental problems

This new working paper by ADBI focuses on four major environmental challenges that policymakers across Asia will need to address towards 2030 - water management, air pollution, deforestation and land degradation and climate change.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2012
Stephen Howes, Paul Wyrwoll
Asian Development Bank Institute
Tags:
Environment, Asia, India, Water Management, Air Pollution, Deforestation, Land Degradation, Climate Change, Delhi, Groundwater, Afforestation, Indoor Air Pollution
Environment

Narmada canal’s Kutch branch hits environmental roadblock

Gandhinagar: The Narmada canal’s movement towards Kutch has suddenly hit an environmental roadblock.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2012
Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
Tags:
Narmada, Canal Irrigation, Rann Of Kutch, Wild Ass SA, Supreme Court, Endangered Species, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Afforestation, Environment, Gujarat
Forests

Funds for afforestation go unutilized

Despite Rs. 11,000 crores set aside for compulsory afforestation (CA) under CAMPA, much of the funding in forestation programmes remains unused.

The Compensatory Afforestation Planning and Management Authority (CAMPA) funds comprise collections from industries and government organisation for diversion of forested areas to non-forest purposes.

Publication Date: 
20/01/2012
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Afforestation, Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management And Planning Authority (CAMPA), Land, Environmentalists, Timber Smuggling, Trees, Forests
Climate Change

Mid-latitude afforestation shifts general circulation and tropical precipitation

We show in climate model experiments that large-scale afforestation in northern mid-latitudes warms the Northern Hemisphere and alters global circulation patterns. An expansion of dark forests increases the absorption of solar energy and increases surface temperature, particularly in regions where the land surface is unable to compensate with latent heat flux due to water limitation.

Publication Date: 
17/01/2012
Abigail L. S. Swann, Inez Y. Fung, John C. H. Chiang
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
109
3
712-716
Tags:
Afforestation, Rainfall, Soil Capability, Global Warming, Land Use, Carbon Dioxide, Atmosphere, Amazon, Africa, Sahara, Solar Energy, Climate Science, Forests
Forests

Plan to plant 1.6 lakh seedlings

In an effort to enhance green cover, Forest Department would embark on the task of planting seedlings of various fast growing tree species outside forest areas in the district.

The seedlings would be planted in government offices and institutions, industrial premises, private education institutions and along roadsides.

Publication Date: 
12/01/2012
R. Rajaram
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Tiruchirapalli (D), Trees, Afforestation, Industry, Neem, Forests, Tamil Nadu
Forests

Haryana govt asked to increase Mangar forest cover

FARIDABAD/GURGAON: After concerns were raised about the Haryana government's plan to put a huge patch of forest area in Mangar and its adjoining villages in Faridabad under residential, agricultura

Publication Date: 
09/01/2012
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forests, Afforestation, Wildlife, Faridabad (D)

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