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Defying global trends, India increases forest cover by 8,021 sq km in two years: State of the Forest Report

The forest and tree cover of the country has increased by 8,021 square kilometres over the last two years, a latest government assessment said on Monday.

Former Doordarshan anchor dies after coconut tree falls on her; family blames Mumbai civic body

In a freak mishap, a former Doordarshan anchor, who was taking a morning walk near a road close to her housing society, died after a coconut tree fell on her

MIT researchers have developed a tree on a chip, with potential applications in robotics

The passive pumping on the device, which the researchers have dubbed as a "tree-on-a-chip" can potentially be used as actuators for extremely small robots.

Tree planted by Queen Elizabeth at AIIMS lost to termites

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) currently celebrating its diamond jubilee has lost to termites the tree planted by Queen Elizabeth on the grand opening of the premier campus in 1961

Lawmakers' juggernaut: Coconut ceases to be a tree, it is now a palm in Goa

The Goa Legislative Assembly today passed the 'Goa, Daman and Diu Preservation of Tree Act' which reclassifies coconut plant as 'palm' amidst the walkout by opposition which criticised the legislation as being detrimental to existence of coconut trees.

Fortingall Yew, oldest tree in Britain may be undergoing 'sex change'

The oldest tree in Britain - a male tree which is estimated to be between 3,000 and 5,000 years old - may be undergoing a sex change, say researchers who found that part of it is turning female.

AAP govt goes green, announces first-ever 'tree census' in Delhi

The Delhi government on Thursday decided to get the capital's first-ever tree census done by a "third party", essentially an NGO, to arrive at a factual figure of the number of trees in the city.

A look at the illicit winemaking tradition that is older than Islam in North Pakistan

The hems of his jeans rolled, Rehmat Ali climbs barefoot up a tree to pick the grapes dangling from climbing vines, defying hostile religious injunctions against alcohol to celebrate a wine-making tradition.

There might be no leaves, but Obama's tree is not dead, say Indian officials

Officials in India want to make one thing clear: The tree that President Barack Obama planted in New Delhi three weeks ago is not dead.

Bat-filled hollow tree in Guinea was Ebola epidemic's ground zero: scientists

More than 20,000 cases of Ebola, with at least 7,800 deaths, have been recorded by the World Health Organization (WHO) since a two-year-old boy died in the village of Meliandou in December 2013.