Trees and Forests - Question of Cities

Trees and Forests
Natural Environment
Sustainability

Do not touch our trees: Citizens echo across cities

From Pune to Hyderabad, citizens are protesting large-scale tree cutting linked to roads, metros, flyovers, mining and real estate projects despite worsening urban heat. In Pune, activists say decades of infrastructure-led concretisation have devastated tree cover, even as the city…

Trees and Forests
Natural Environment
Sustainability

Paris shows the cool way to prioritise nature over concrete

Paris went from grey car-centric to green and tree-filled, planting nearly 1,00,000 trees and creating 531 gardens, and two urban forests with…

Trees and Forests
Natural Environment
Sustainability

‘What’s the strategic component in Great Nicobar? The logic is entirely financial’

The dense green forest of over 130 square kilometres in the Great Nicobar, equivalent to 38 percent of Mumbai, faces total erasure…