Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said the state currently has 10 per cent forest cover, and the aim of the government is to have 16 per cent of forest cover in the state.

Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar together account for the majority of the 33,024 hectares of plantation carried out along the Ganga river basin under the Ministry of Jal Shakti’s Namami Gange ...

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Forest Department has installed 272 km of fencing, 231 km of chain-link and 41 km of solar, across forest regions between 2023–24 and 2024–25 to curb human-wildlife ...

Uttar Pradesh's leaders, including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, celebrated International Tiger Day by noting the rise in ...

India’s forest and tree cover has risen by 2,261 square kilometers in the last two years with Andhra Pradesh growing the maximum forest cover of 647 square kilometers, according to the India ...

Blue carbon ecosystems such as mangroves, seagrass meadows, and salt marshes are coastal and marine habitats that naturally capture and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. As informed by the ...

This includes a forest cover increase of 156 km2 (60 mi2, or 0.2%) and a tree cover increase of 1,289 km2 (498 mi2, or 1.16%). But how these numbers account for plantations and forests isn’t clear.

If it seems like forest fires are getting much worse, that’s because they are. The area of trees lost to fires each year is now twice as large as it was in the year 2001.