Books placed on a tree in Alipurduar are not just driving out drug addicts from a 109-year-old club ground, but also spreading the joy of reading. Nimesh Lama, 25, an unemployed graduate from Kalchin...

But beyond that, plants also use this extensive underground web of fungi to interact with each other, moving information, nutrients, sugar and water to other trees in the system that need it most...

Jadavpur University’s ‘tree audit’ initiative will turn three early next month. As part of a ‘save green’ campaign, the varsity had set out to calculate the number of tr...

The easiest excuse is to say you don’t have time. Sarmistha Sen Das admits that she could have spent much more time on her plants was she not running two organisations — one for artisans a...

Environment crusaders — young and old —walked through some hotspots of Kolkata on Friday seeking implementation of the laws that the government has promulgated to save the city’s nat...

Arun Ganguly has been photographing his garden for some time. These are lush images of plants and flowers, captioned meticulously, sent to his friends and acquantances. Ganguly, 83, has been well-kno...

The city police will take 226 Tata Nexon electric vehicles on lease to gradually phase out 15-year-old  diesel-powered vehicles. The cars will be distributed among units of the force, an officer ...

Several councillors have decided to stop waiting for the corporation’s tree-trimming hydraulic ladders and instead hire labourers themselves to climb up and do the needful before the imminent mo...

Lutyens' Delhi lost at least 77 trees, some of them decades old, while 58 big branches broke off and fell in Monday's fierce thunderstorm and heavy rains in the national capital, NDMC official...