Faced with shortage of funds, the government on Tuesday called upon private firms to go the extra mile to increase forest cover so that an additional carbon sink of 2.5 billion tonnes of carbon dio

Hundreds of trees uprooted in the rains in Chennai have underscored the need for a rethinking in selection of tree species suitable for urban and coastal districts of Tamil Nadu.

An arm of State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) claims that the organisation’s afforestation efforts have more than made up for the deforestation caused by its mining activities.

The AP Forest Department is racing against time to plug the gaps in its bid to secure denotification of 19,000 hectares of reserve forest land in Krishna and Guntur districts so that it can be used

PUNE: By jumping into the fast lane to grow more industrialised and in the frenzy to construct highways and dams, Maharashtra has sacrificed close to 6,724 hectare forest land in the last three yea

While this will be the first tree census conducted by the Delhi government, government officials said, that the NDMC had conducted a similar census within its jurisdiction earlier.

The Delhi government on Thursday decided to get the capital's first-ever tree census done by a "third party", essentially an NGO, to arrive at a factual figure of the number of trees in the city.

MGNREGS Cell of North 24- Parganas in collaboration with Sunderbans affairs department has taken up mangrove plantation to prevent soil erosion and protect river banks in Sunderbans areas, which ha

The Madras High Court Bench here on Wednesday directed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to plant about 20,000 saplings along the four-lane highways in the southern districts within t