India

 Trees voted out

A novel referendum by the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (smc) spelt doom for 122 trees. The civic body asked people to choose between the trees and traffic jams. In the voting, the roads won by a

Publication Date: 
14/02/2003
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Trees, Urban Transport, Road Transport, Roads, Assam, Siliguri
India

 Poplar demand

Trees take centrestage in Himachal Pradesh

Publication Date: 
30/01/2003
Richard Mahapatra, Baldev S Chauhan
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Deforestation, Timber Smuggling, Trees, Compensation, Legislation, High Court, Himachal Pradesh
Climate Change

 The climate-forest continuum

I remember how I first learnt about global warming. It was in the late 1980s. My colleague Anil Agarwal and I were searching for policies and practices to regenerate wasted common lands. We quickly

Publication Date: 
14/11/2002
Sunita Narain
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Forests, Forest Management, Afforestation, Trees, Climate Change, Global Warming, Emissions Trading, Carbon Sinks, Carbon Sequestration, Government Of India (GOI), India
Water Pollution

 Poplar winner

Are GM trees ready to turn the paper and pulp industry green?

Publication Date: 
30/07/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution Control, Paper and Pulp Industry, Trees, Genetic Engineering, Research, Scientists, France
India

 A mother s love

A childless woman's search for emotional fulfilment through planting and nurturing saplings
by Malini Shankar

Publication Date: 
14/07/2002
Malini Shankar
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Afforestation, Trees, Women, Personnel Management, Awards, India, Bangalore (D)
India

 When modern wisdom fails

The tree court started out as a great idea, but is little more than a paper tiger today

Publication Date: 
29/06/2002
Keya Acharya
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Forest Conservation, Trees, Compensation, Legislation, High Court, Bangalore (D)
India

 Charaka and Sushruta reborn

Bangalore University s new BioPark has medicinal gardens that incorporate the near forgotten science of India s ancient medical treatises

Publication Date: 
14/06/2002
Keya Acharya
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Western Ghats, Trees, Sandalwood, Green Spaces, Traditional Knowledge, Medicinal Plants, Biotechnology, India, Bangalore (D)
India

 An urban dream

Goans come together to protect the irreplaceable rain trees of Panaji against a callous government

Publication Date: 
14/05/2002
Frederick Noronha
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Trees, Politics, Panaji
Biodiversity

 And they fell

A less happy story from another part of Goa

Publication Date: 
14/05/2002
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Trees, Politics, Panaji
Water Resources

 India

Trespassers moved: The glory of Dal lake is being revived. Thirteen hotels situated in the lake area are being shifted to Humhama near

Publication Date: 
14/05/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution Control, Lake Pollution, Cotton, Water Resources, Lakes, Dal Lake, Trees, Transport, Waste Disposal, Legislation, Jammu & Kashmir, Maharashtra

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