Allowing forests to regenerate on their own has been championed as a strategy for reducing planet-heating carbon in the atmosphere while also boosting biodiversity, the benefits ecosystems offer and ...

India has been quietly doing something that most countries can only dream of: growing its forest cover on a massive scale.

The oldest banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) is found in the Munger district of Bihar. The researchers revealed that the tree ...

DEHRADUN, India, March 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For scientist, activist and tree lover Ravi Chopra, it is a painful sight. Where thick forest recently stood, a swathe of bare yellow earth is ...

LUCKNOW, India — More than a million people on Sunday began planting 250 million saplings in India’s most populous state, part of an annual mass tree planting campaign to reduce carbon emissions and ...

An ancient tree from India is now thriving in groves where citrus trees once flourished in Florida, and could help provide the nation with renewable energy. As large parts of the Sunshine State’s once ...

Recent tree-fall deaths in Mumbai have highlighted the risks posed by heavy rain, strong winds and urbanisation. Here's why trees topple during storms and how the risk can be reduced.