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 …
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Governor Dr K K Paul constituted a high-powered committee on Monday to prepare a detailed report on the causes and other aspects of the forest fires in Uttarakhand. The decision to constitute this committee was taken by the Governor on Monday afternoon following intense deliberations with the advisory …
The evaluation of loss of forest wealth in Uttarakhand due to forest fires continues to be a tedious affair. There is no foolproof mechanism to evaluate the loss caused due to the destruction of a tree in fire. The devastating forest fires have destroyed forest wealth. Though the records of …
Aided by widespread rainfall since Tuesday, forest fires which ravaged thousands of hectares of green cover in Uttarakhand were doused completely on Thursday with no reports of fresh blaze from anywhere in the state. Meanwhile, the administration claimed it was fully prepared to deal with fresh fires in case they …
Over 65 per cent of Uttarakhand’s total area of 34,651 sq.km is under forest cover. But surprisingly, the State has made no inventory of its trees and this has encouraged a flourishing and organised trade in illicit timber. “There is no record either of the forest produce or the number …
The National Green Tribunal issued notice to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Wednesday, asking for its response to the forest fires in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh by May 10 — the next date of hearing. A Bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar had issued showcause notices …
In early spring the Baltic region is frequently affected by high-pollution events due to biomass burning in that area. Here we present a comprehensive study to investigate the impact of biomass/grass burning (BB) on the evolution and composition of aerosol in Preila, Lithuania, during springtime open fires. Non-refractory submicron particulate …
The second phase of the odd-even car rationing scheme helped "reduce" the air pollution during the initial few days but farm and forest fires played spoilsport and it registered a "sudden spike" from April 22 onwards, a green body claimed today. An analysis of the scheme by Centre for Science …
Responding to the query, the ministry’s counsel said that entire team of officials concerned was working on the issues and IAF helicopters have also been deployed in the ongoing firefighting operations. EXPRESSING CONCERN about forest fires raging in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, the National Green Tribunal Tuesday said it was …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajiv Dutta, Senior Adv. Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 04/05/2016 regarding forest fire in the State of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. NGT asks the State Government of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, particularly the Forest Department on the fire …
NAINITAL: Raging forest fires in Uttarakhand could have a devastating effect on the state's glaciers which are the lifeline of the major rivers flowing through India's northern plains. According to experts at Nainital's Aryabhatta Research Institute for Observational Sciences (ARIES) and Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development …
The root cause behind one of the biggest ongoing environmental disasters in the country is still blurry, but what is evident is the unceremonious isolation of local communities from forests in Uttarakhand. The government has employed over 6,000 personnel to fight the fire, and besides the fire department, also deployed …
Three nabbed for causing fires that devastated 3,185 hectares in Kumaon and Garhwal Three persons have died, 14 have been injured and three have been arrested for allegedly causing forest fires that have devastated 3185 hectares of forest area in the Kumaon and Garhwal regions of Uttarakhand, Additional Chief Secretary …
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has released its analysis of air quality data during the second phase of odd and even scheme – from April 15 to April 30. This shows that air pollution took a downward dip during the first 10 days of the scheme but registers a …
Wildfires are an important component of terrestrial ecosystem ecology but also a major natural hazard to societies, and their frequency and spatial distribution must be better understood. At a given location, risk from wildfire is associated with the annual fraction of burned area, which is expected to increase in response …
Uttarakhand forest fires are a man-made disaster, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday as the National Disaster Response Force claimed that the inferno had gone out in more than 70 per cent of the affected areas. Four people have been arrested in connection with the fires. Latest satellite imageries …
Nainital-based veteran photographer Anup Sah, whose pictures of blazing forests in Kumaon have gone viral on social media, has said that a number of factors, including climate change and official apathy, has resulted in the fires amassing large proportions in the state. Claiming that it was a disaster waiting to …
A number of theories are circulating on what would have caused such gargantuan fires in Uttarakhand, reportedly the worst the state has seen in recent times. The reasons, as claimed by many on social media, range from being a calculated ploy of the timber mafia, that will stand to benefit …
While environmentalists and activists are largely blaming the timber and land mafia for raging “manmade” forest fires in Uttarakhand and now Himachal Pradesh, they also fault the poor management of such expected “cyclic” events. The lack of compliance of general management practices required to pre-empt such eventualities, which are now …
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand governor K K Paul on Thursday directed district administration to take strict measures against those involved in illegal felling of trees and forest fires in the hill state besides sanctioning additional funds to the tune of Rs 5 crore to deal with the menace. The governor held a …
The costly interactions between humans and wildfires throughout California demonstrate the need to understand the relationships between them, especially in the face of a changing climate and expanding human communities. Although a number of statistical and process-based wildfire models exist for California, there is enormous uncertainty about the location and …
