Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar on September 07 held a webinar on International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies.
On World Environment Day, India has launched an ambitious project to create urban forest cover which will act as green lungs in 200 cities across the country. There is a need to increase forest cover in urban areas to create and enhance their lung capacities, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Friday at an event to mark World Environment Day, which was organised virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Uttarakhand Police have filed FIR against some people for spreading fake news regarding forest fire in the state.
A massive hunt is on to capture a leopard, which killed a 75-year-old woman at a village in the wee hours of Saturday on the forest fringe in Karnataka's Tumakuru district, the police said.
A leopard was rescued from UP's Amroha on May 14. With the help of forest team, locals rescued the wild cat.
A biker escaped a life-threatening encounter with an elephant while he was crossing a road despite officials blocking the way and traffic behind him waiting patiently and yards away. An IFS officer also tweeted the thrilling video showing elephant chasing the biker.
While releasing the report, Javadekar said that there is an increase of 42.6 million tonnes in the carbon stock of the country as compared to the last assessment of 2017.
The Supreme Court has allowed for felling of trees on the condition that saplings be planted as part of the afforestation drive, under a strictly monitored process
In order to reduce environmental pollution and to improve the air quality, Miyawaki forests will be grown in the city, said S.P. Velumani, Minister for Municipal Administration, Rural Development and Implementation of Special Programme.
Abdul Vahid, who lived in Kagajidevera area of the district, went missing on Monday evening after he left home to attend a wedding in Alod village, Station Hose Officer (SHO) Shivraj Gurjar said.
The court's remarks came while hearing the Uttar Pradesh government plea seeking a blanket order for quashing all the orders passed by Forest Settlement Officers from 1994 onwards, allowing industries to operate in the Renukoot-Mirzapur reserve forest area.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the administration, Haldiram Education Society (HES) and Jaypee Infratech Limited (JIL) on Wednesday for this, the officials said.
The scientists uncovered fossil fragments of 13 long deceased trees dating from the end of the Permian Period, some 260 million years ago.
Large scale conversion of forest land into crop land is a major reason behind the weakening of monsoon in the north-eastern and north-central India, a recent study conducted at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Tokyo (Japan): A nationwide joy and relief came out on Friday after knowing that a 7-year-old Japanese boy remarkably survived after being abandoned in a forest by his parents who wanted to teach him a
Lucknow/Dehradun: After several sorties by MI-17 choppers trying to douse the forest fires in Uttarakhand were aborted at many places on Sunday owing to "poor visibility and thick smoke", the state government was pinning its
Dehradun: Taking a serious note of the raging forest fires in different parts of the state, Uttarakhand Governor KK Paul has decided to double the number of personnel engaged to douse the flames from 3000
Los Angeles: Actors Brad Pitt and Shia Labeouf reportedly stayed in a forest for two days so they could bond well and act perfectly in upcoming movie "Fury".Directed by David Aye, "Fury" is based on
Hyderabad: A Forest Range Officer (FRO) was killed and seven other officials were injured in an attack allegedly by a group of villagers in Andhra Pradesh's Nizamabad district, police said today. The incident occurred at
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