Ludhiana the world’s most polluted city according to the World Health Organization (WHO) — will now attempt to break an environmental record, for the most tree saplings planted in an hour, as part

Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 500 million acres of land in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean was acquired or negotiated under deals brokered on behalf of foreign governments or tran

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said on Tuesday that the government had no plans to impose ban on mining in the State.

Forests (and landscapes with trees) are such an important part of a number of different Sustainable Development Goals that we recommend working towards a transformative ‘forest module’. The module improves on the more limited current focus on sustainable forest management, deforestation and reforestation targets.

NASHIK: The civic body has invited tenders from private organisations for planting trees in lieu of the 2,000 to be hacked for widening of roads throughout the city limits.

BANGALORE: In the heart of Bangalore — which some still refer to as Garden City — 10 municipal wards have less than 200 trees.

We often hear that planting trees can help cool the environment. This may work not only at a household level, but also on the planetary scale-large scale afforestation has been advanced by the United Nations as a means of mitigating global climate change. At the garden level, trees provide shade and relief from the summer heat. On the planetary scale, how do trees help cool the earth? (Guest Editorial)

Fourteen lakh saplings of different species will be planted under Koriya forest division this year.

The land-use sector can contribute to climate change mitigation not only by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but also by increasing carbon uptake from the atmosphere and thereby creating negative CO2 emissions. In this paper, we investigate two land-based climate change mitigation strategies for carbon removal: afforestation and bioenergy in combination with carbon capture and storage technology (bioenergy CCS).

Meghalaya frames guidelines 18 years after Supreme Court ban on timber felling

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