Forests

Nashik Municipal Corporation to plant 12,000 trees in lieu of 2,000 to be felled

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.

Publication Date: 
27/06/2014
Sumita Sarkar
Times Of India (Nashik)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Nashik, Trees, Afforestation, Municipal Corporation, Environmentalists, Forests
Forests

Study Exposes Tall Tree Cover Claims

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

Publication Date: 
27/06/2014
Ashwini M Sripad
New Indian Express (Bangalore)
Tags:
Karnataka, Bangalore (T), Trees, Municipal Corporation, Forests, Carbon Dioxide, Respiratory Diseases, Environmentalists, Afforestation
Climate Change

Can planting new trees help to reduce global warming?

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)

Publication Date: 
25/06/2014
G. Bala
Current Science
106
12
1623-1624
Tags:
Climate Change, Afforestation, Trees, Carbon Dioxide, Green House Gases, Forests, Grasslands, Carbon Sequestration, Global Warming
Forests

14L saplings to be planted in Koriya forest division

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

Publication Date: 
25/06/2014
Pioneer (Raipur)
Tags:
Chhattisgarh, Afforestation, Tree, Koriya (D)
Climate Change

Investigating afforestation and bioenergy CCS as climate change mitigation strategies

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).

Publication Date: 
23/06/2014
Florian Humpenöder, Alexander Popp, Jan Philip Dietrich & et al
Sustainable Environment Research
9
6
1-13
Tags:
Afforestation, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Carbon Capture and Storage, Land Use, Green House Gases, Agriculture, Biomass
Forests

Govt to streamline use of forest resources

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

Publication Date: 
23/06/2014
Shillong Times (Shillong)
Tags:
Meghalaya, Trees, Deforestation, Forest Products, Trade, Timber Industry, Afforestation, Forests
Forests

Green Gurgaon: HUDA to plant 50,000 trees this monsoon

GURGAON: The city's shrinking green cover has posed a serious threat, and environmentalists and city authorities are geared to make it greener this monsoon season by planting more trees.

Publication Date: 
20/06/2014
Vimal Chander Joshi
Times Of India (Gurgaon)
Tags:
Haryana, Gurgaon (T), Trees, Afforestation, Environmentalists, Monsoons, Municipal Corporation, Forests
Forests

Country's forest cover to increase to 35 pc by 2020

The government plans to increase the forest cover in the country to 35 percent by 2020. Currently, the forest cover is 29.7 percent.

Publication Date: 
19/06/2014
Daily News (Sri Lanka)
Tags:
Forests, Sri Lanka, Afforestation, South Asia, Forest Conservation
Forests

Capital's Maitighar-Tinkune road section heads for greenery

KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu Valley Development Authority under the Ministry of Urban Development today planted approximately 700 trees and shrubs on the eight-lane road strips stretching 2.66-km betwe

Publication Date: 
19/06/2014
Himalayan Times (Nepal)
Tags:
Kathmandu, Forests, Afforestation, Nepal, Roads, Trees, South Asia
Forests

District admin has no data on survival of saplings planted

NASHIK: Even as the district administration claimed to have achieved 81% of its tree plantation target for the fiscal 2013-14, it doesn't have any information about how many saplings managed to sur

Publication Date: 
19/06/2014
Abhilash Botekar
Times Of India (Nashik)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Nashik, Trees, Afforestation, Forests

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