Revegetation of degraded ecosystems provides opportunities for carbon sequestration and bioenergy production. However, vegetation expansion in water-limited areas creates potentially conflicting demands for water between the ecosystem and humans. Current understanding of these competing demands is still limited. Here, we study the semi-arid Loess Plateau in China, where the ‘Grain to Green’ large-scale revegetation programme has been in operation since 1999.

With an aim to reduce pollution.With an aim to reduce pollution.

Himachal Pradesh government has set a target of planting over one crore saplings this year to increase the depleting green cover in the state.

Although deforestation continues unabated in tropical forests, a new study has revealed some unexpected good news: tree cover on agricultural land is increasing across the globe, capturing nearly 0

The Forest Department has planted about 70,000 saplings of various medicinal and other species over an area of 123 hectares in lieu of axed trees for the four-laning of the Parwanoo-Solan stretch o

Minister for Forests, Environment and Ecology, Chaudhary Lal Singh today said that Government is undertaking various ‘Missions’ for the broader understanding and responses on climate change across

An Act to provide for the establishment of funds under the public accounts of India and the public accounts of each State and crediting thereto the monies received from the user agencies towards compensatory afforestation, additional compensatory afforestation, penal compensatory afforestation, net present value and all other amounts recovered f

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Environment Protection, 02/08/2016. The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) is sponsoring three major Schemes for protection of environment and afforestation i.e. National Afforestation Programme (NAP) Scheme, National Mission for a Green India (GIM) and Intensification of Forest Management Scheme (IFMS) for implementation by the States including the State of Rajasthan.

Random species of trees have been planted across Kigali and other towns around the country with less regard to international standards for urban forestry, officials say.

The International Day for the Conservation of Mangrove Ecosystem was observed in Puducherry.

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