Indonesian fire forces Singapore to shut school

Forest and peatland fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan deteriorates Singapore’s air pollution levels  

Why cutting down Chirpine is not a solution to Uttarakhand forest fires

Resin ducts that make the tree prone to fire should rather be used as a resource

Joint venture

Southeast Asian nations ink pact that transcends borders to tackle haze pollution caused by land and forest fires

GETTING HOTTER

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India to get real time forest fire alert system

Forest Survey of India's new programme also tracks big fire incident

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Fired up about ozone

Roasted and poached

Forest fires are a boon for poachers in Uttaranchal

Poorer countries more exposed to fire-induced air pollution: Study

The exposure levels were particularly high in several hotspots like Central Africa, Southeast Asia, South America and Siberia

Forest Survey Report 2021: Forest fire counts up 2.7 times

Forest fires in Uttarakhand in November 2020-June 2021 were 28.3 times more compared to November 2019-June 2020  

Odisha forest fires spark human-wildlife conflict

Elephants, wild boars have started coming out of forests on fire and entering human habitations

Bastar witnessed more forest fires than Uttarakhand's Pauri Garhwal

FSI’s satellite data show that while Pauri Garhwal recorded 471 instances of forest fires, the highest in Uttarakhand, Bastar recorded 555 …

The new culprit of global warming

Though the world's attention is focussed on the degradation of tropical forests as a major contributor to global warming, the depletion of boreal …

Return of the smog

Experts believe that the smog which enveloped Indonesia last year may return to aggravate the economic crisis that has engulfed the country

Resentment sets fire to Nagarhole

Forest fires aid in the spread of mercury in soil

Odisha had half of India’s wildfires on March 13 — & poachers may be to blame

Principal Chief Conservator of Forests alleges hunters setting fire to target wild animals; one suspect arrested 

Atmospheric rivers over California’s wildfire burn scars raise fears of deadly mudslides

Wildfire burn scars are particularly risky because wildfires strip away vegetation and make the soil hydrophobic — meaning it is less able …

Summer fire activities thrice than winter months in 2021

Punjab, Haryana recorded close to 23,000 cases of farm fires from March 1-May 11, 2022

Climate variability may explain annual spike in ozone-destroying gas: Study

Forest fires fuelled by the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon might be responsible for the short-term spikes in methyl bromide,…

NASA images capture wet and dry cycles in Namibia’s Etosha Pan

The salt pan in Namibia receives most of the rainfall — as much as 46 cm — every year between October and March

In the Parliament on July 20, 2018

Here’s a round-up of today’s debates and reports on environmental and developmental issues

Forests under fire

We need not burn forests to get good fodder for cattle. Our lands are rich with green grass without the fires

Atmospheric implications of burning forests

Global Biomass Burning -- Atmospheric, Climatic, and Biospheric Implications Edited by: Joel S Levine Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge, …