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07 Aug 2024

Enjoy the Charms of Mesmerizing Forests Around The World

For a very long time, people have regarded forests as magical havens that pique one's curiosity and enchantment. These natural treasures, which range from calm woodlands to deep rainforests, provide a haven for wildlife as well as a place of inspiration and peace for visitors who stroll along their shaded pathways. Here, we investigate the enchantment found in some of the most alluring forests on the planet.

18 Jul 2022

Development should not be at cost of nature: Delhi minister Gopal Rai

The quest for development are facing the consequences today. The ministry has also proposed to amend the Environment (Protection) Act to decriminalize its existing provisions. The emission reduction target set under the National Clean Air Programme.

09 Aug 2019

Madhya Pradesh: Forests in the grip of flood, tiger appeared on roads

In Madhya Pradesh's Mandla, Forests are completely in grip of the flood. A tiger appeared roaming on roads.

12 Feb 2019

India and China lead the way in increasing Earth's green cover: NASA report

That spike in human population is detrimental to Earth's green cover is a notion that has been busted by both India and China.

Tropical forests

02 Apr 2018

To prevent collapse of tropical forests, protect their shape

Fires on the edges of tropical forests and their alteration by land use makes these hot ecosystems lose their shape and stability bringing a sudden, even catastrophic, transformation of land from trees to grass, researchers have found.

International Day of Forests

21 Mar 2018

International Day of Forests: Reasons why greenery is important for survival

Forests provide a wide range of environmental, social and economic benefits that improve our quality of life.

12 Feb 2018

India's overall forest cover expands: Report

The Minister said the news was good because it reverses the trend of decreasing forest cover the world over.

21 May 2017

2025 to be a period of forest downfall? ISRO scientists predict India's green cover loss!

Published in the Journal of Earth System Science in February, the study investigated the distribution of forest cover in India by reconstructing the previous forest cover and predicted the ever-continuing deforestation in selected parts of India with high deforestation rates.

16 Nov 2016

Rhino killed by poachers in Kaziranga National Park in Assam, toll reaches 15

An adult male rhino was killed by poachers today in Kaziranga National Park in Assam taking the toll to 15 this year, a forest department official said.

25 Oct 2016

No one has right to snatch away land of tribals, says PM Narendra Modi

"It`s the priority of our government to ensure that tribals get their right. No one has right to snatch away their lands," Modi said.

22 May 2016

PM Modi calls for protection of environment on 'Mann Ki Baat'

PM Modi called for protection of the environment and said that conservation of water and forests are people's responsibility.

21 Mar 2016

PM Narendra Modi urges people to conserve forests

Meanwhile at a function in Delhi, Environment and Forest Minister Prakash Javadekar said that every individual should plant at least 10 to 15 trees during their lifetime.

27 Feb 2016

Researchers create 'cyberforests' to predict climate change

Researchers at Washington State University Vancouver created the first computer simulation that grows realistic forests down to the branches, leaves and roots of individual trees.

06 Feb 2016

Birds of 11 rare species found in Jharkhand

Birds of 11 rare species thought to be extinct have been found during a survey of the water bodies in Jharkhand, a state forest department official said.

22 Jan 2016

Protected forest cover key to improving biodiversity: Study

Biodiversity in the forests may be recovering as a result of repeated efforts of environmental conservationists in protecting the forest areas, reveals a new study.

29 Dec 2015

"Bio-diversity hit by ignorance, low income of forest people"

Ignorance coupled with dwindling income level of people living in the fringe areas of forests, has put enormous pressure on the balance of biodiversity, deputy director of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), Abhijit Roychowdhury, said here today.

04 Dec 2015

India to achieve more than its committed INDC target: Javadekar

In the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions announced recently, India had set a target of creating an additional 2.5 to 3 billion (250 crore) tonnes of CO2 equivalent carbon sink.

22 Nov 2015

Havens, menaces or challenges: Forests in literary imagination

21 Nov 2015

Is Ashwathama of Mahabharata still alive?

24 Oct 2015

Chinese villagers turn pine moths into delicacy

A novel way to deal with troublesome pine moths, a common pest which causes serious damage to forests, has proved effective as villagers in China collect the pupas and process them into a delicacy, media reported on Saturday.

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