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 …
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. According to local people, the villagers of Laika and Dodhia have been resorting to the slash …
Solomon Moore & Rebecca Cathcart David Grieb had just returned home three days earlier from a cross-country drive to be at the bedside of his dying mother when the order came for him to evacuate the Oakridge Park modular home development because of an approaching wildfire. Several weeks earlier, Mr. …
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. Around sunset, residents were warned to stay on alert as winds of more than 97 kph were …
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 More than 6,000 hectares (15,000 acres) have been scorched by twin blazes burning near San …
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. The most severe fires, fanned by stiff, dry Santa Ana winds typical of the fall, were burning several thousand acres at the rim of …
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. Large, well-documented wildfires have recently generated worldwide attention, and raised concerns about the impacts of humans and climate change on wildfire regimes. However, …
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 …
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 fuel loads to accumulate, severe …
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 …
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, …
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 is 30 per cent less than the annual average, with temperatures soaring by 1
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 …
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 …
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 …
In 2005, southwestern Amazonia experienced the effects of an intense drought that affected life and biodiversity. Several major tributaries as well as parts of the main river itself contained only a fraction of their normal volumes of water, and lakes were drying up. Analyses of climatic and hydrological records in …
