Trees `shield vulnerable flora species from climate change`

Last Updated: Sunday, November 3, 2013, 15:45

Forests featuring dense canopies develop a microclimate that protects many cold-adapted plant species from climate change, a new study has shown.

Chimps use long-term memory to forage for food

Last Updated: Thursday, October 24, 2013, 12:07

A team of scientists have determined that chimpanzees use long-term memory for remembering the size and location of fruit trees and feeding experiences from previous seasons using a memory window that can be from two months to three years ago.

Trees felled with due permission: Delhi Metro tells NGT

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 19:32

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has refuted before the National Green Tribunal the allegation of "avoidable felling of 700 trees" for construction of its line from Mundka in Delhi to City Park in Bahadurgarh, Haryana.

Eucalyptus trees could point to potential gold reserves beneath

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 16:10

Scientists have claimed that eucalyptus trees could potentially help in revealing buried treasure.

Australian scientists find gold in trees

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 13:06

Researchers from Perth have found tiny particles of gold hidden in eucalyptus trees, in a discovery which could help future prospectors to find deposits of the precious metal.

Money doesn`t grow on trees but gold just might: Study

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 23:54

Researchers said Tuesday they had found a surprising marker for deep-buried gold, miniscule traces in the leaves of Eucalyptus trees growing over veins of the yellow metal.

Despite NGT orders, Ghaziabad trees rooted in concrete

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 22:41

Environmental considerations do not seem to be part of the civic agency`s development programmes in Ghaziabad.

No trees be cut without consent in UP, MP: NGT to industries

Last Updated: Monday, October 7, 2013, 20:58

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) Monday restrained industries from cutting trees without consent from competent authorities in Singrauli and Sonebhadra districts of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

Elevated project: NGT concerned over PWD`s silence on trees

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 22:01

The bench directed the Chief Engineer of PWD to file a personal affidavit giving complete details of the trees.

Plant more trees: Punjab govt to people

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 6, 2013, 21:33

Punjab government today urged people to plant more saplings to make the state greener.

NGT asks committee to see possibility of saving trees

Last Updated: Friday, August 2, 2013, 20:44

The NGT Friday directed a committee to see the possibility of saving trees coming in the way of an elevated road project on Vikas Puri, Mukarba Chowk in West Delhi by translocating them.

Green boon: Fast-growing trees aid paper-making, help save forests

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 31, 2013, 18:20

They look like normal eucalyptus trees up to 65 feet tall with a trunk girth of about 19 cm and towering over their peers in an evaluation trial on the foothills of Himalayas.