After-burn: Urgent need to relocate Gir lions
New Delhi: The fire that engulfed a part of Gujarat
New Delhi: The fire that engulfed a part of Gujarat
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.
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.
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 than 1,800 homes were destroyed in the fires.
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 checking fires. The programme for giving cash rewards for
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 toll could reach 300.
SYDNEY: One turtle
The death toll from the worst wildfires in Australia
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.
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 the eastern Amazon, the region most at risk from climate change, deforestation and fires.
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 rubble. Police warned the death toll could rise.
Melbourne: In what is described as Australia
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
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.
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.
Forests can sequester carbon dioxide, thereby reducing atmospheric concentrations and slowing global warming. In the U.S., forest carbon stocks have increased as a result of regrowth following land abandonment and in-growth due to fire suppression, and they currently sequester approximately 10% of annual US emissions.
Fifteen years ago the hillside of Karsog Tehsil in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh was covered with pine mono cultures. The officials of the forest department preferred pine as it is not eaten by cattle, grows quickly after a fire, is hardy, requires minimum effort and had a good survival rate.
This guideline provides a set of priority principles on fire management, which is an essential component of sustainable forest management.
<p>This report presents an assessment of the trade in gibbons and orang-utans in Sumatra, Indonesia, including the islands off Sumatra’s west coast (most notably, the Mentawai Islands). Until recently Sumatra and its off-lying islands harboured one of the largest expanses of lowland evergreen rainforest in Southeast Asia.