(Top) Curzon Park has more rats than blades of grass; (above) a part of Howrah Maidan resembles a litter bin. Pictures by Pradip Sanyal

London: Tropical trees have grown bigger over the past 40 years and now absorb 20% of fossil fuel emissions from the atmosphere, highlighting the need to preserve threatened forests, British researchers said.

MUMBAI: Acting on the directives of the Central Zoo Authority (CZA), which were issued during the approval of the Rs 434-crore Byculla zoo makeover plan last year, the BMC has completed a survey to ascertain the number of trees there.

Mumbai: A...organise a campaign againt felling of 100 trees for a road

The residents of Napean Sea Road on Tuesday carried out a campaign, inspired by the Chipko Movement, to save more than 100 trees in their locality from getting axed because of a road widening project.

Mumbai: A...organise a campaign againt felling of 100 trees for a road

The residents of Napean Sea Road on Tuesday carried out a campaign, inspired by the Chipko Movement, to save more than 100 trees in their locality from getting axed because of a road widening project.

MUMBAI: To protest against the BMC's plan to chop and relocate trees for the Nepean Sea Road widening project, school students on Tuesday will hug trees in the area reenacting the erstwhile chipko movement. The widening of this road will require relocation of 54 trees while 99 others will have to be chopped.

People adopt trees in an MCD park to remember the dead

State policy limits green cover expansion
by S.S. Johl

THE Himalayas with its forests act as the lungs of India. Its green cover not only needs to be conserved, but also must be expanded further in terms of the area under trees, density of the forests and the quality of plants.

COIMBATORE: Thanks to the Tamil Nadu Afforestation Project Phase I, the forest and tree cover of Tamil Nadu has increased to 4.26 per cent from 3.66 per cent even though at the all India level it declined to 2.79 per cent from 3.05 per cent, Minister for Forests N. Selvaraj said here on Thursday.

New Delhi: NDMC