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People rest under the shade of trees in New Delhi as the city is gripped by a heat wave in June 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Cooling cities needs climate-smart design, not just more trees

Deepa Padmanabhan 9 Jul 2026

Labourers plant saplings as part of an tree plantation project. Representative image. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Rethinking forest restoration beyond tree cover [Commentary]

Dhanapal Govindarajulu, Johan Oldekop 8 Jun 2026

Why India’s tree-planting programmes are falling short

Aisiri Amin 3 Jun 2026

A tree plantation near Hanley showing flood irrigation of a willow-poplar mixed plantation in an otherwise dry steppe habitat. Image by Mayank Kohli.

Ladakh needs ecology-focused policy, not mass tree planting [Commentary]

Dawa Dolma 26 Nov 2025

As lightning kills 12 in a day, Odisha proposes large-scale palm tree plantations

Aishwarya Mohanty 17 Oct 2023

Should tree plantations be counted toward reforestation goals?

Gianluca Cerullo 21 Sep 2021