#fires

2.33 million hectares of tree cover lost since 2000? NGT seeks Central government response

As per Global Forest Watch data, Assam, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur accounted for 60% tree cover loss between…

3 weeks ago

Udhagamandalam | The Nilgiris on high alert

As a child, Sobha Madhan, 39, remembers her ajji (grandmother) talking about the Kurumba community setting fire to their parcels of land…

1 month ago

Earth’s Changing Climate

We are facing a fundamental revision of the entire Earth-system, a dramatic shift away from the state it had inhabited…

4 months ago

How ‘man-made fires’ become ‘climate made’

PANJIM: On March 7, when the great fires in the Mhadei wildlife sanctuary forest erupted, the Forest Minister and the…

1 year ago

Natural disasters, boosted by climate change, displaced millions of people in U.S. in 2022

New data from the Census Bureau has surprised some experts who warn the situation could get worse: “These numbers are…

1 year ago

Exposure to Air Pollution Can Throw Chess Players Off Their Game, Claims New Study

Can you imagine spending years mastering a certain game, honing your memory and cognition until you know the layout of…

1 year ago

Wildfires emitted 1.76 billion tonnes of carbon this year, breaking records

Wildfires produced a record amount of carbon emissions in parts of Siberia, the United States and Turkey this year, as…

3 years ago

Wildfires can reduce biodiversity—can biodiversity be used to reduce wildfires?

A biodiversity experiment in Australia showed animal species can help reduce flammable leaf litter by 24 percent. Become a powerful…

3 years ago

Background on California Wildfires

Efren Oxlaj Tambito, Sam Packard, and Liz Rickley are environmental ethics fellows at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.  Views…

3 years ago

A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us.

Some devastating impacts of global warming are now unavoidable, a major new scientific report finds. But there is still a…

3 years ago

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