Mumbai: The Supreme Court on Monday slammed the Maharashtra government over the compensatory afforestation carried out in lieu of trees cut in Aarey forest to make way for infrastructure projects, ...

China completed 125 million mu (8.33 million hectares) of afforestation and the improvement on grassland, and reclaimed desertified land and rocky desertification of land that amounted to 28.57 ...

The push toward net zero presents significant opportunities for businesses to innovate, grow and align with evolving market demands. Central to these efforts are strategies like carbon capture, ...

Scientists from Israel have calculated how long it would take for PV plants and afforestation projects to offset their warming impacts caused by the darkening of land. The results showed that in ...

In recent years, an afforestation project in the mountains north and south of Lhasa has been steadily progressing, marking the largest reforestation initiative in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous ...

The approval granted to a compensatory afforestation proposal against the clearing of forest land in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district underlines much that is wrong with the policy. The proposal is to ...

How can afforestation/reforestation (AR) help reduce climate change and help achieve the goal of the Paris Agreement calling for a maximum 1.5 degrees Celsius above ...

A healthy global debate has occurred concerning the benefits of using non-native trees for restoring some aspects of ecosystem function in degraded habitats. In many cases, the stresses associated ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have investigated the genetic diversity and future distribution of Shorea macrophylla (Dipterocarpaceae), an important tree species endemic to Borneo. They found ...