The former Daewoo Motors factory in Greater Noida was sealed after a real-estate company was caught brazenly felling trees not once, but twice. It’s a first for a private property here.
Tracking those tree weight dynamics over large areas delivers new insights into the climate impact achieved by forest conservation and restoration projects.
MMRCL had informed SC in 2019 that it needed to fell 84 trees in Aarey Forest for metro car shed, but later sought permission from officials to cut 185.
Govt to devise mechanism to ensure trees duly planted as compensatory afforestation if permission is granted for felling. Official says provision already exists & issue is implementation.
In study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, US & Canadian scientists claim citation bias and overinterpretation of results may be leading to misunderstanding of fungal networks.
Sustainable use of wild species critical for food security, but threatened by overexploitation, pollution & climate change, among others, says report by intergovernmental agency, IPBES.
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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