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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
DOTI: A fire destroyed around 1,744 hectares of forest, including community and leasehold, in Doti district on Thursday. According to Forest Officer of the Doti District Forest Office Badri Kumar Karki, the forest fire broke out in 85 community forests, two leasehold forests and other government-owned forests causing huge damages …
Malaysia is proposing to amend an act to allow the government to seize control of land where big fires are discovered, as part of its long-term efforts to curb haze from slash-and-burn forest clearing techniques usually linked to palm oil plantations. The palm oil sector in top producers Indonesia and …
Wildfires in different community and national forests including Shuklaphant Wildlife Reserve Area have destroyed over 10,000 hectares of forests. The District Forest Office informed that the fires have destroyed over 50 community forests and national forests as well. Assistant Forestry officer at the Office Bishweshwar Joshi stated that the wildfire …
Residents of Tivon, located in the forested hills southwest of Haifa, are fighting a plan to cut down trees near their community. The tree-cutting project, intended to protect the community from forest fires, is to begin Sunday; residents say it will cause undue damage to the oak groves that protect …
Europe faces multiple climate hazards in the coming decades. Changes in climatic conditions across the continent could lead to increased events of heat and cold waves, river and coastal floods, droughts, wildfires and windstorms, especially in the south-western regions, according to a recent study. The study, published in the journal …
Recurrent wildfires have destroyed more than 500 hectares of forest area in Gulmi district in the last one month. The wildfires engulfed more than 500 hectares of forest area in various community and national forests, according to District Forest Office, Gulmi. Bushfires are occurring on a daily basis in majority …
As forest fires raged like never before across Indonesia last year, President Joko Widodo announced he was setting up a special agency to tackle the annual scourge that shrouds parts of Southeast Asia in choking haze. But, with this season's fires already blazing, the Peatlands Restoration Agency has barely got …
Fire is a common perturbation in the grassland ecosystems throughout the world. Effect of fire on carbon stock, rate of C-accumulation and soil CO2 flux have been studied in Imperata cylindrica–Sporobolus indicus-dominated grassland community of Manipur, Northeast India. Original Source
Around 35 acres of forest was destroyed on Saturday in a fire that erupted in the protected areas of the Castlereagh reservoir and Devon Falls. Police suspect that the fire has been deliberately caused by a certain group. Police said around 500 acres near the hill country water sources have …
New research by UNSW's Climate Change Research Centre reveals the staggering decline of Adelie penguin numbers at Cape Denison in Antarctica, following the grounding of a 97km iceberg in Commonwealth Bay. Record-breaking autumn heat is just a warning of what's to come if Australia doesn't act immediately to combat climate …
SANTIAGO – A total of 19 forest fires continue to burn in five Chilean regions, according a statement released Sunday by the National Emergency Office, or Onemi. According to figures compiled by the National Forestry Corporation, or Conaf, up through March 12 the fires had burned some 763 hectares (about …
Forest officials suspect miscreants behind fire Up in smoke: Forest fire broke out in the Bandipur National Park in Chamarajanagar district on Tuesday. Forest land spread across 200 acres was destroyed in a wildfire around the elephant camp near at the Bandipur National Park here on Tuesday. Forest department officials …
Chronic nitrogen deposition has measureable impacts on soil and plant health. We investigate burning emissions from biomass grown in areas of high and low NO x deposition. Gas and aerosol-phase emissions were measured as a function of photochemical aging in an environmental chamber at UC-Riverside. Though aerosol chemical speciation was …
Forest fires spread over 500 acres in the north of the Malaysian state of Sarawak in Borneo island have raised air pollution to hazardous levels on Monday in areas close to the inferno, government data showed. The fires have spurred an emergency response from the state fire and rescue department, …
The number of bushfires in Australia is on the rise - up 40 per cent since 2007 - local scientists have found. In a new research paper, published on Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science, scientists from CSIRO and University of Tasmania also say the increasing bushfire frequency …
