With just a bicycle and a pocket full of seeds, Telangana’s ‘Tree Man’ Daripalli Ramaiah planted over 10 million trees, creating one of the...

Fifty lakh trees will be planted in about 12,000 hectares of land in forests across the state under the project, an official release said o...

"We are also making an effort in this direction by developing a mechanism for the minute detailing of the forestation at the (given) geo-co...

States will not get fund for compensatory afforestation in one go. Rules, which are being finalised for disbursement of nearly Rs 42,000 cr...

The Lok Sabha on Tuesday unanimously passed the much awaited Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) Bill, 2015 that aims to ensure expeditio...

Coal India is afforesting about two and a half times of forest land it conducts mining on so as to minimize impact on land and environment.

The land, scattered along the banks of Ganga in Jansath tehsil of Muzaffarnagar, was being encroached, with land mafia allegedly forging la...

In a move which may give a major boost to the country’s efforts to increase its green cover under a law, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday gav...

The government has merged National Mission for a Green India, which aims afforestation at 10 million hectares of land over the next decade,...

"Green cover is increasing and government's intention is to take it to 33 per cent (of the total land area)," environment and forests minis...

"Green cover is increasing and government's intention is to take it to 33 per cent (of the total land area)," he said during Question Hour.

The ministry has approached the CCI seeking 'central government' status for ultra mega power projects for the purpose of acquiring forestla...

RPower's Sasan power project received undue favour from the environment ministry that gave forest clearance to the project in violation of ...

Funds collected from the diversion of forests is held in the Supreme Court's mandated Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planni...

Intending to maintain a rational balance between conservation and development, the Centre would soon bring in a bill to create a special au...