Forest fires forcing jumbos to flee
By Subhash Chandra NS, DH News Service, Bangalore: The attempts to trace the roots of man-elephant conflict in the State has come out with an interesting finding.
By Subhash Chandra NS, DH News Service, Bangalore: The attempts to trace the roots of man-elephant conflict in the State has come out with an interesting finding.
Global climate change is a reality. In Europe the most vulnerable regions are the Arctic, mountain areas, coastal zones and the Mediterranean. Key economic sectors, which will need to adapt include energy supply, health, water management, agriculture, forestry, tourism and transport.
DIBRUGARH, Nov 27: Despite news reports of forest dwellers cutting and burning down vast tracts of Dibru Saikhowa National Park, no one from the Forest Department has reportedly gone to investigate into the matter.
Solomon Moore & Rebecca Cathcart
The majestic forests are vanishing in smoke and sawdust, but there's still hope for the Borneo's fabled biodiversity
Los Angeles, Two huge wildfires driven by strong Santa Ana winds burned into neighborhoods near Los Angeles, forcing frantic evacuations on smoke and traffic-choked highways, destroying homes and causing at least two deaths.
LOS ANGELES, (AFP) - - Firefighters braced for more unfavorable weather conditions as they made inroads in containing two wildfires blazing north of Los Angeles that killed one person and forced thousands to flee. ADVERTISEMENT
Fierce wildfires erupted in Southern California on Monday, leaving two people dead and heralding the start of the most intense period of the fire season here.
deer population in Garhwal forest division of Pauri district of Uttarakhand has plummeted to a dangerous low. According to the division
Study published in Nature Geoscience in latest September edition says that climate change has been the main driver of global biomass burning for the past two millennia.
The death toll from bush fires in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province has risen to 20, an official said on Wednesday. The fires affected 1,100 households, destroyed scores of livestock and left swathes of crop and grazing land smouldering. Lennox Mabaso, a spokesman for the local government ministry, said damages were expected to run into millions of rand (dollars). "So far the official figure that we have at the disaster centre is 20 confirmed deaths, but the figures remain preliminary," Mabaso told Reuters.
More catastrophic wildfires just waiting to happen. This is the situation now facing the American West. Wildfire frequency and severity are increasing because of rising temperatures, drying conditions, and more lightning brought by global warming. When combined with decades of fire suppression that allowed unsafe
Choking smoke from forest fires hung over parts of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia on Friday, forcing a delay in flights and prompting fears that conditions could worsen because of lack of rain, officials said. About 450 fires have been detected across Indonesia, and forestry officials have warned that the number could exceed the total of 35,000 reported last year, as the dry season this year is likely to be marked by less rain than usual.
Hyderabad, July 20: Forest fire causes major disaster to the vegetation in the state. Forest fires amount to 13.53 per cent of total blazes in the country. After Mizoram and Orissa, Andhra Pradesh has the largest number of fire spots according to the ministry of environment and forest department. Khammam, Kadapa and Prakasam figure in the list of top 30 districts with the highest number of fire incidents.
China's northeastern region and Inner Mongolia are facing the highest spring fire risk in 60 years, the State Headquarters for Forest Fire Control (shffc) has warned. Rainfall in the region
Interannual variations in CO2 exchange across Amazonia, as deduced from atmospheric inversions, correlate with El Nino occurrence. They are thought to result from changes in net ecosystemexchange and fire incidence that are both related to drought intensity. Alterations to net ecosystemproduction (NEP) are caused by changes in gross primary production (GPP) and ecosystemrespiration (Reco ).
This paper uses a palaeoecological approach to examine the impact of drier climatic conditions of the Early
This paper argues for a twofold perspective on human adaptation to climate change in the Amazon. First, we need to understand the processes that mediate perceptions of environmental change and the behavioural responses at the levels of the individual and the local population. Second, we should take into account the process of production and dissemination of global and national climate information and models to regional and local populations, especially small farmers.
Fire is an important and arguably unnatural component of many wet Amazonian and Andean forest systems. Soil charcoal has been used to infer widespread human use of landscapes prior to European Conquest. An analysis of Amazonian soil carbon records reveals that the records have distinct spatial and temporal patterns, suggesting that either fires were only set in moderately seasonal areas of Amazonia or that strongly seasonal and aseasonal areas are undersampled.