Everyone knows the Great Wall of China, but likely far fewer have heard of China's "Great Green Wall," which recently hit a major milestone after more than four decades of tree-planting.
The Mamata Banerjee government has decided to translocate 980 full-grown trees from 376 acres of land on which the first phase of the proposed Deocha-Pachami coal mine project in Birbhum would come up ...
So, lawmakers decorated their "Christmas tree" in the only way they know how. That resulted a few days ago in the colossal 1,547-page interim spending bill to avoid a government shutdown.
Not to be confused with another ambitious Great Green Wall in Africa, China's overall program has already "achieved remarkable success in terms of improving ecological stability and supporting the ...