New Delhi,

Yet another lot of trees, 1,523 to be precise, are proposed to be axed as part of the Delhi government

DH News Service, Sirsi:

Soil, water and forest are the basis of human life and they should be conserved for the future generation, environmentalist Sundarlal Bahuguna said here on Sunday.

Amazon deforestation jumped 69 percent in the past 12 months

Mayor Boris Johnson unveiled a plan on Friday to help London tackle the challenge of climate change with less carbon dioxide, more trees, better drainage and increased water efficiency.

The National Accountability Bureau, NWFP, has filed a reference in the accountability court against 13 people, charging them with inflicting a loss of Rs56.577 million to the exchequer through illegal cutting of trees in the Hazara tribal forest division.

According to the NAB, the accused, including four employees of the forest department and a tehsil nazim, had managed to admix a large volume of illegally-cut timber with genuine timber of joint forest management committees (JFMCs).

Mumbai, August 27 The BMC has proposed to display the names of the trees on board for easy identification. This has been stated in an affidavit filed by the BMC to the Bombay High Court. The affidavit has been filed by Superintendent of Garden Vijaykumar Dande in response to a PIL challenging the procedure followed for cutting trees in Mumbai.

UN climate talks in Ghana are making progress on ways to help developing nations slow deforestation and have eased disputes over use of greenhouse gas targets for industrial sectors, delegates said on Monday.

"It's moving pretty well now," Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat, told reporters of the Aug. 21-27 talks which are defining the building blocks of a new UN global warming pact meant to be agreed by the end of 2009.

A pilot palm tree cultivation project was launched in Jessore on Saturday with a view to encouraging farmers to plant palm trees in a larger way.
The commander of the joint force, Lieutenant Colonel M Tanvir Iqbal, inaugurated the project in a ceremony held on the premises of Jhikargachha upazila office.
The deputy director of the Department of Agricultural Extension, Khairul Islam, among others, attended the programme.

Deepa Kozhisseri

Two species of trees, earlier considered extinct, have been rediscovered in Uttara Kannada district.

Botanists have re-discovered two critically endangered tree species, earlier considered to be extinct. The trees that originated in southern Kerala have been discovered for the first time in some of the relic primeval evergreen forests of Uttara Kannada district in the Western Ghats.

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, say the discovery is an indication that the primary forest still thrives there.