The government has planned to increase the country's forest cover from 29.7 percent in 2014 to 35 percent by 2020, Environment Minister Susil Premajayantha said yesterday.

World Environment Day’ is observed with the message to maintain ecological balance and to protect greenery all around as well as to preserve flora and fauna.

The widespread loss of greenery to the ongoing road expansion drive in Kathmandu Valley is set to be reverted beginning with a section on the 2.2km road spanning Maitighar and Tinkune.

On World Environment Day, this could be worrying news for the new environment minister.

The concerns about depleting green cover and increasing air pollution in the national Capital have made the Delhi Forest Department launch a massive plantation drive soon.

Dolloi Chiefs of Jaintia Hills agree to work with SPIKAP to implement GEF/ UNDP pilot project grant for protection of six Sacred Forests, as a pilot project and to also sensitise those incharge o

The new environment, forests and climate change minister, Prakash Javadekar, has been advised by the bureaucracy at Paryavaran Bhawan against continuing with the ban on mining in forests and morato

The Social Forestry Department will plant more than 4.5 lakh saplings in the district in connection with observance of World Environmental Day on June 5. Minister for Co-operation C.N.