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 …
Forest fires are being controlled in Tamil Nadu with the help of satellite data, forest officials say. Thanks to the availability of data on forest fires, it can be downloaded and overlaid with the administrative map of the forests to point the exact location in which it occurs. Talking about …
The forest department has planted 16.43 lakh trees and raised 17.46 lakh plants in its nurseries under Compensatory Aforestation Management Planning Authority (CAMPA) in six divisions of Chenab Forest Circle during the period 2010-11 till March 2012, involving a cost of Rs 6.44 crore. For the year 2012-13 the department …
Bangladeshi capital Dhaka has topped a global list of cities facing the highest climate change risks in the coming decades, while Indian metropolis Kolkata is ranked seventh, Mumbai eighth and Delhi at 20th. Manila, the capital city of The Philippines, was ranked second in the British risk consultancy Maplecroft’s fifth …
Dhaka has been ranked the top city in the world to face the highest climate change risks in the coming years. The Bangladesh capital came top in the ranking of 50 cities by Maplecroft, a British firm specialising in risk analysis, as the changing temperatures and weather systems are forecast …
The ongoing eco-restoration programme at Sohra, under which eleven lakh saplings were planted, faces a constant threat from forest fires that are common in the hills of the State. The saplings were planted in order to preserve the ecology of the Sohra plateau and the six-year-old project sanctioned by the …
India is planning to launch 58 space missions, including sending spacecraft to Moon and Mars, an exclusive satellite to keep a round-the-clock watch on the country and deploy hundreds of transponders in the next five years, reported Press Trust of India on Sunday. The India Space Research Organization also aims …
Biomass burning (BB) contributes large amounts of black carbon (BC) and particulate organic matter (POM) to the atmosphere and contributes significantly to the earth’s radiation balance. BB particles can be a complicated optical system, with scattering and absorption contributions from BC, internal mixtures of BC and POM, and wavelength-dependent absorption …
Fires that erupted on Tuesday night, in three forest reserves in Vavuniya and in two places in the Badulla district, destroyed over 30 acres of forest. However, they were brought under control. Disaster Management Centre, Deputy Director of Media Sarath Lal Kumara told The Island that in each reserve about …
Fire incidents have declined considerably in forests of Madhya Pradesh due to implementation of information technology-based fire alert messaging system. The Forest Department had implemented this system in the year 2008. Per case affected area was 8.35 hectare in the year 2007, which has come down to 3.61 hectare in …
Fires that erupted in a forest at Eravur and in a hill forest area in Wilgamuwa on Monday afternoon destroyed about 10 acres but were brought under control by yesterday afternoon. Disaster Management Centre, Deputy Director for media Sarath Lal Kumara said that the fires had not spread as the …
Nepal, Bhutan and India have agreed to work together to allow the free movement of animal species and address problems of poaching, overgrazing, forest fires and the spread of livestock diseases by developing biodiversity corridors along Mount Kanchanjunga. Rich landscape around the Kanchanjunga range includes 15 protected areas spread across …
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has ordered a probe into alleged involvement of politicians in widespread bushfires in peat swamp forests in Nakhon Si Thammarat and other provinces. The fresh investigation follows a report that the fires, which have destroyed more than 15,000 rai of forests in five districts of three …
The needles shed by pine trees had since ages been a cause for worry for hundreds of villages in Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh. The needles, which contain resin canals making them inflammable, would lead to major forest fires in summers, reducing trees to ashes and charring wild animals to …
District Secretary of Sri Lanka's hill country Nuwara Eliya D.P.G. Kumarasiri pointed out that the wild fires in the forests have damaged around 1,500 acres of indigenous forest cover. The official further said that all the wild fires that broke out in the area were man-made, according to the investigations. …
The changes will result from the South Pacific rain band responding to greenhouse warming. The South Pacific rain band is largest and most persistent of the Southern Hemisphere spanning the Pacific from south of the Equator, south-eastward to French Polynesia. Occasionally, the rain band moves northwards towards the Equator by …
President Mahinda Rajapaksa ordered the relevant officials to take immediate measures to protect wildlife and halt timber rackets. The President was addressing the Badulla District Special Development Committee meeting yesterday at the Provincial Council auditorium. The President was told by a Provincial Council member that the flora and fauna of …
Around 50 acres of forest was destroyed by a fire which broke out yesterday morning in the Somawathi Forest Reserve, near the Somawathi Chaitya in Polonnaruwa, according to Deputy Director of the Disaster Management Centre Sarath Lal Kumara. He told The Island yesterday evening that they sought the help of …
Catastrophic forest fires — spurred by hot and dry weather — have ravaged vast areas of Siberia, and ruined the region’s ecosystem, said Russian ecologists. Fires have destroyed 100,000 sq km of forests across Russia — an area bigger than Bihar — since the start of the summer season this …
