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 …
Enacted in 1993, before climate change was so prominent in the public media eye, the US Northwest Forest Plan's primary goal was the conservation of old growth forests on public land, and thereby also protecting threatened and endangered species, such as the northern spotted owl. Forest harvests in those public …
A wildfire that burned over 400 square miles of Alaska tundra in the scorching summer of 2007 poured as much carbon into the atmosphere as the entire Arctic normally absorbs each year, according to a new study in the scientific journal Nature. The tundra fire, near the Anaktuvuk River of …
A sudden fire that erupted in the Knuckles Range had destroyed about 30 to 40 acres of the forest land. Matale Disaster Management Centre spokesman Indika Ranaweera told the Daily News yesterday. He said that the fire was doused with the support of the Forest Conversation Department officers, police and …
The Langtang National Park & Buffer Zone Area Support Project (LNPBZ SP) works to fulfill the Sacred Himalayan Landscape’s vision of preserving water resource, forest, pasture land, land and flora and fauna through integrated management, enhancing livelihood opportunities for local people, and the conservation of cultural diversity. The Project has …
About two years ago, a fire broke out in the Biligiri Rangaswami Temple Wildlife Sanctuary in Karnataka. The police arrested 35 community leaders of Soliga tribe for causing the fire. Five people still have cases against them. Yet the forest community recently submitted a bold proposal to the Centre advocating …
Arctic tundra soils store large amounts of carbon (C) in organic soil layers hundreds to thousands of years old that insulate, and in some cases maintain, permafrost soils. Fire has been largely absent from most of this biome since the early Holocene epoch, but its frequency and extent are increasing, …
For centuries, the whitebark pine, Pinus albicaulis, has grown on hundreds of thousands of acres across the West. It is a keystone species of an entire ecosystem — one now seriously at risk. Most of the whitebark pines in Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks are dead. It has been declared …
Climate change is likely to alter wildfire regimes, but the magnitude and timing of potential climate-driven changes in regional fire regimes are not well understood. We considered how the occurrence, size, and spatial location of large fires might respond to climate projections in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem (GYE) (Wyoming), a …
The 5,800 acres he farms near Lubbock, Texas, are half irrigated and half at the mercy of the clouds. And the past nine months have been the driest in Texas on record. The Lone Star state is at the epicentre of a once-in-a-generation drought stretching from Arizona to Florida. The …
If you happen to see a swarm of butterflies flying above the terrace of your office in the crowded Bengaluru city, count yourself lucky. You are witness to the largest annual butterfly migration in southern India. Every year between October and December, swarms of Dark Blue Tiger and Double Branded …
Los Alamos: A wildfire near the desert birthplace of the atomic bomb advanced on the Los Alamos laboratory and thousands of outdoor drums of plutonium-contaminated waste as authorities stepped up efforts to protect the site and monitor the air for radiation. Officials at the premier US nuclear-weapons lab gave assurances …
About 30 acres of forest land in Digampathana at Sigiriya were completely destroyed by a fire that ravaged the area, police media spokesman Prishantha Jayakody said yesterday. He said the fire was finally doused by forest officers who were assisted by the Dambulla Urban Council fire Brigade, the Sigiriya police …
Too close for comfort: fires burn in the hills above the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a nuclear site in New Mexico Firefighters on Tuesday battled a wildfire that threatened a government nuclear facility in New Mexico, raising fears about the safety of radioactive materials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. …
Los Alamos Lab Shut, Residents Evacuated Firefighters battled a vicious wildfire that was spreading Tuesday through the mountains above the northern New Mexico town that is home to a government nuclear laboratory. The wildfire, which began Sunday, had destroyed 30 structures south and west of Los Alamos by early Monday …
The fire which broke out in the Kalugalla Patana area in Ududumbara on the Eastern slope of the Knuckles Range destroyed over 600 acres of forest cover. The Kandy District Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Center Major Kamal Herath stated that the fire had spread from Kalugal Patana area …
A raging wildfire in Los Alamos on Monday briefly entered the property of the nation's preeminent nuclear facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory, a vast complex that houses research laboratories and a plutonium facility. A mandatory evacuation has been ordered for the town of Los Alamos, which has a population of …
Sri Lanka Forest Conservation Department says that the fire that erupted in the Knuckles Forest Range in the Central hills has been completely extinguished. The fire erupted on Saturday night has destroyed flora and fauna in 50 acres, the Department said. The officials fought 14 hours to extinguish the fire …
Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Center has said today the forest fire started in the Knuckles Range in the Central Hills of the island on Saturday night is still continuing. The Disaster Management Center says helicopters will be used to distinguish the fire erupted in the forest range as the area …
A fast-moving wildfire has broken out in New Mexico and forced officials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to close the site Monday as residents nearby evacuate their homes. The fire has grown to 3,500 acres, or 5.4 square miles, since it started at around 1 p.m. on Sunday about …
A large area of the Nilgala forest reserve in Bibile which is considered the only natural forest of medicinal plants in Asia has been ablaze for about two days. The residents of the area said more than 1000 acres had already been destroyed. Nilgala forest reserve is about 64,000 acres …
