Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Giri Gobardhan Forest Committee Vs State of Odisha & Others dated 15/05/2025. The Applicant Giri Gobardhan Forest Committee has filed the application alleging illegal felling of trees over an area of around 5 acres within the …
An operational remote sensing-based forest fire detection and monitoring system for Nepal was officially launched by the Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation (MoFSC) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) on Friday during a regional policy workshop at ICIMOD headquarters in Kathmandu. According to a press release …
The bushfires in the national and community forests at different places of Dang district are still raging for many days as no efforts have been made to douse them. Large swathes of forests have been destroyed by the fires, threatening the wildlife there. The wildfires have been reported in the …
Climate-driven disasters such as bushfires and floods have cost Victorian taxpayers more than $4 billion over the last decade, it has emerged, as the Napthine Government released its plan for Victoria to prepare for the future impacts of climate change. The plan – released on Tuesday in state parliament – …
Climate change was a major driving force behind a string of extreme weather events that alternately scorched and soaked large sections of Australia in recent months, according to a report issued Monday by the government’s Climate Commission. A blistering four-month heat wave during the Australian summer culminated in January in …
Two wildlife sanctuaries — Silent Valley National Park and Wayanad — have been closed to visitors since Friday following high fire risk. Scanty summer showers and dried vegetation have heightened the fire risk in most of the protected areas of the State. The restriction on tourism activities and curbs on …
Firefighters stopped the spread of a 311-acre wildfire in the heavily vegetated Santa Ana River bottom Friday, despite gusty Santa Ana winds and extremely dry conditions amid a late-winter heat spell. Firefighters continued to work on hotspots, and a firefighting helicopter was on standby, said Greg Birchfield, a spokesman for …
Much of fire-prone south-eastern Australia is poorly served by fire services and the shortfall is likely to worsen as cities sprawl and a warming climate increases risk, according to research commissioned by the United Firefighters Union. Using census and other data, the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research found …
Emissions from landscape fires affect both climate and air quality. This study uses satellite-derived fire estimates and atmospheric modelling to quantify the effects on health from fire emissions in southeast Asia from 1997 to 2006. Strong El Nino years are found to increase the incidence of fires, in addition to …
Kingathang, Phobjikha, Wangduephodrang Despite more than 300 people fighting the forest fire at Kingathang in Phobjikha, Wangduephodrang that started on January 29, it showed no sign of stopping as of yesterday evening. Apart from the foresters and local officials, farmers from Phobjikha and Gangtey tried to contain the fire that …
Fanned by strong afternoon winds, the forest fire, which started around 11:30 yesterday morning near Gyalpoizhing town in Mongar, has damaged some 200 acres of chirpine forest. The fire started near one of the makeshift houses in Gyalpoizhing, Tashipogtor where someone was cooking outside. Gyalpoizhing Range officer, Yeshi Lhundrup said …
Advocacy group submits memorandum to the Forest Department The Forest Department has been urged to hire people from the local communities as fire watchers in view of a prolonged dry season and the threat of forest fire in national parks. It has also been suggested that funding could be sought …
Temperatures in Sydney on Friday hit their highest levels since records began 150 years ago, after an Australian government agency warned of more frequent and intense heatwaves in the future. While a vicious cold snap has recently hit Russia and eastern Europe and the Middle East has suffered its worst …
Australia’s extreme summer heatwave, which caused devastating bushfires and saw temperature forecasts go off the scale, is part of a global warming trend, the UN’s climate panel chief said Tuesday. As the 250 lead authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s next major report meet in the southern Australian …
Australia’s extreme summer heatwave, which caused devastating bushfires and saw temperature forecasts go off the scale, is part of a global warming trend, the U.N.‘s climate panel chief said Tuesday. As the 250 lead authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)‘s next major report meet in the southern …
Rob Torenius had seen bush fires come close to his family’s timber mill in the southeast Tasmanian town of Forcett – but not since 1967. His son, Matthew, had never encountered them. “There’s a big hill over the back of the mill and that just looked like a volcano. The …
The world is more at risk as persistent economic weakness saps our ability to tackle environmental challenges warns this new report by World Economic Forum (WEF) with analyses of 50 global risks in terms of impact, likelihood and interconnections. This report analyses 50 global risks in terms of impact, likelihood …
Wildfire activity in North American boreal forests increased during the last decades of the 20th century, partly owing to ongoing human-caused climatic changes. How these changes affect regional fire regimes (annual area burned, seasonality, and number, size, and severity of fires) remains uncertain as data available to explore fire–climate–vegetation interactions …
Itanagar, Nov 30: Taking into consideration the wanton destruction of forests, the Ruksin range forest officer P Tamuk has taken an important step to put a check on forest fire and illegal felling of trees in reserve forests. The RFO has widely distributed a ‘circular’ to the villages – Ledum, …
The demand of forest produce for this huge population on the limited natural resources eg. the land and forests, makes it almost impossible to met from the notified forest area which is only 13.32% only. To cope up with the situation, efforts have been taken by the Forest Department to …
This report includes the analysis of forest fires in Andhra Pradesh, which has immense importance in creation of a healthy forest. This, coupled with analysis of forest cover in protected areas and Vana Samrakshana Samithies (VSS) areas gives an insight into the conditions of wildlife areas and impact of involvement …
