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     staff reporterlike other developing cities in the country, nagpur is also losing its green cover rapidly as infrastructure development gains pace. in a recent development, the central railway (cr), which plans to expand its n

The BMC has called for an investigation into the illegal felling of the tree as well as further action against the road contractor citing the Maharashtra (Urban Areas) Protection and Preservation of Trees Act, 1975.

The complaint was filed by Rajesh Vasave, assistant garden superintendent, PCMC at Nigdi police station on Friday evening

Singapore News - A project director of the consultancy linked to the unauthorised clearing of Kranji woodland in 2020 and 2021 was fined $20,000 on Tuesday. Tan See Chee, 65, was part of a quartet of officers from Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) and CPG Consultants working on the development... Read more at www.tnp.sg

A total of 362 trees with girths exceeding 1m were cut down. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A single-judge bench of Justice Jasmeet Singh, after perusing photographs of the trees along ‘Lok Marg/Om Mandir Marg’ which were part of the plea, said that it “shows a shocking state of affairs” as “100-year-old trees” have been “brutally cut down without any application of mind.”

However, the census will be in a different avatar, deviating a bit from the full-fledged process as directed by the Karnataka High Court in 2019. According to the officials from the forest department of the BBMP, the census will focus on the number of trees in the city and will document only five parameters - girth, unique tree ID, species name, GPS location, and photograph - of each tree.

Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana is among Kevin McCarthy's potential successors.

Kevin McCarthy's ouster as speaker is certain to affect energy and environmental policy, and everyone is scrambling to figure out what's next.

On Your Mark.. Get Set...CUT! National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) Begins Axing Trees on NH 66 between KPT & Nanthoor Junction to facilitate