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 …
Scores of people fled their homes in southern Australia on Monday fearing that rising temperatures and strong winds could fan blazes burning in forests into unstoppable firestorms. Tensions were high in Victoria, where devastating fires swept a vast area of the state on February 7, destroying more than 1,800 homes …
Udhagamandalam: Despite the best possible efforts to contain bush fires in several parts of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, fresh fires which are breaking out are posing a major challenge to wildlife officials. The fires are keeping the officials on their toes. A look at the sprawling 321-sq.-km. reserve from a …
BY ROD MCGUIRK CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA Australian officials said on Friday that they want to fast-track rules making cigarettes less likely to ignite fires as part of the government
IAN SAMPLE Tropical forests may dry out and become vulnerable to devastating wildfires as global warming accelerates over the coming decades, a senior scientist has warned. Soaring greenhouse gas emissions, driven by a surge in coal use in countries such as China and India, are threatening temperature rises that will …
Australia could be in for more forest fires in the coming decades like the ones that have devastated southern Victoria and claimed at least 200 lives so far, besides gutting more than 700 houses. Climate models based on figures provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict more frequent …
JUNAGADH: Was it a case of a controlled fire going out of control? While the forest fire that broke out in the tall grasslands of Mitiala range Gir razed in fire 300 hectares of forest area of the Gir was razed in fire at Junagadh. A team of around 1,000 …
Melbourne: The confirmed death toll from deadly wildfires has reached 200 and will rise further, the police said. The grim milestone was passed on Tuesday after investigators confirmed 11 more people had died in one of more than 400 fires that raged across southern Victoria state on February 7. More …
Himachal Pradesh gives incentives to prevent forest fires The Himachal Pradesh forest department has decided to reward community initiatives in the state that are successful in averting forestfires. The annual reward would vary between Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000, depending on how successful a joint forest management committee is in …
A Week after bushfires started blazing across parts of southern Australia, the country was still coming to grips with one of the most traumatic events in its peacetime history. The fires that erupted on February 7th in Victoria, the second-most populous state, killed more than 180 people. Police say the …
CANBERRA - Australia's deadliest bushfires increased pressure on the national government to take firm action on climate change on Monday as scientists said global warming likely contributed to conditions that fueled the disaster. At least 130 people were killed in bushfires, set off by a record heatwave in southern Victoria …
OSLO - Amazonian forests may be less vulnerable to dying off from global warming than feared because many projections underestimate rainfall, a study showed. The report, by scientists in Britain, said Brazil and other nations in the region would also have to act to help avert any irreversible drying of …
SYDNEY, Australia: Fanned by the hottest temperatures on record, a series of wildfires tore through southern Australia over the weekend, killing at least 131 people in the deadliest natural disaster on record, police said Monday. Forensic investigators descended on the fire zone Monday to begin identifying bodies found in the …
HEALESVILLE, AUSTRALIA Towering flames razed entire towns in southeastern Australia and burned fleeing residents in their cars as the death toll rose to 84 on Sunday, making it the country
By Lasantha Nirosdhan Perera Bushfires destroyed more than 100 acres of forest cover in Kuttapitiya, Pelmadulla. The Kuttapitiya,Imekele proposed forest reserve is a part of the catchments of the Kirindiella waterfall which is the ninth highest waterfall in the country. Divisional Secretary, Pelmadulla Rohana Senaratne said the forest reserve was …
Date: 23-Jan-09 Country: US Author: Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON - Trees in the western United States and Canada are dying twice as quickly as they did just 30 years ago, with rising average temperatures almost certainly to blame, researchers reported on Thursday. These thinner and weaker forests …
22 January, 2009 - About 200 foresters, civil servants and villagers of Udzorong and Liza, Khaling gewog mopped the last remains of the first fire in Trashigang dzongkhag, on January 20. The forest fire that began on the evening of Jan 16 lasted three days destroying about 80 hectares of …
