TopicForest Fire

Topic: Forest Fire

The Amazon is burning in 2020 again. It can just lead to more pandemics

Kerry William Bowman - 4 October, 2020

According to the Global Fire Emissions Database project run by NASA, fires in the Amazon in 2020 surpassed those of 2019.

Lockdown brought cute images of dancing peacocks, not rhino poaching, Uttarakhand forest fires

Shubhangi Misra - 28 May, 2020

The economy has come to a standstill due to Covid-19, but increased natural disasters, poaching & deforestation prove the environment is still under attack.

Fake social media photos exaggerating Uttarakhand forest fires situation: Forest official

Mohana Basu - 27 May, 2020

Incidents of fires in Uttarakhand have gone up in the last 5 days, but the devastation is nowhere close to what the state had experienced last May, say officials.

Mystery fire breaks out in UP forest, triggers panic among villagers

PTI - 15 June, 2019

Smoke was seen gushing out through cracks in the ground in Mohammadi range forests and land turned into embers at some places.

Karnataka gripped by forest fires, state says it’s because of ‘mischief & mistakes’

Rishika Pardikar - 25 February, 2019

Forest Survey of India report finds Karnataka has most forest fires. State forest department questions data, but says the fires are a matter of concern.

When it comes to forests, India must fight fire with fire

Sanya Dhingra - 14 March, 2018

The govt’s colonial-era emphasis on preventing all sorts of fires may actually be increasing the frequency of the devastating fires, say experts.

It is not the heat, but us human beings who are setting South India’s forests on fire

Rohini Swamy - 13 March, 2018

Experts believe that most forest fires are man-made and data corroborates this.

Theni forest fire brings to light the haphazard trekking protocols in India

Neera Majumdar - 12 March, 2018

So far, 9 trekkers have lost their lives in Tamil Nadu. The group allegedly went without a guide and didn’t even take permission, despite recent forest fires.