In contrast, data from the Forest Survey of India—under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change—claims that India’s total forest cover grew by about 5% during the same period.

Between February 15 and April 15, the peak fire season, 345 large fire incidents were recorded, compared to 176 during the same period last year, according to data from the Forest Survey of India ...

All this is happening whilst India’s official forest survey, the annual India State of Forests Report (ISFR), claims the country’s forest and tree cover has been increasing. People are concerned ...

Hyderabad: As many as 15 inscriptions from the Satavahana period have been discovered by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in the forests of Peddapalli district. This is the first time that ...

AGRA: The Supreme Court (SC) has directed the Forest Research Institute (FRI ... ongoing proceedings in the 1985 M C Mehta vs Union of India case and was made available on Sunday.

Also, as per the India State of Forest Report - 2015 released by the Forest Survey of India (FSI), the forest cover in Chandigarh is 48.03 sq km, and another 9 sq km area is under tree cover.

Climate change intensifies this risk by creating warmer and drier conditions. Between November 2023 and June 2024, the Forest Survey of India recorded 2,03,544 forest fire incidents. Such alarming ...

The Supreme Court has approved the Forest Research Institute's plan to conduct the ... including a new dolphin project and lion and cheetah habitat expansion. India's first survey of riverine dolphins ...

The Biomass mission will use a long-forbidden part of the radio spectrum to see how much carbon forests capture.