Amid long dry spell, 74 sporadic forest fires in Goa in early March, Rajya Sabha told

2023-04-06T17:17+0200expressindia (en)

Responding to a written question by member and former Goa CM Luizinho Faleiro, Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, gave the figures and told the House, “Although most forest fires were doused the same day, the fires reported in inaccessible,....

Forest fires rage across Maharashtra as forest department looks on helplessly

2023-04-06T05:07+0200timesofindia (en)

Nagpur: Even as tendu leaf auctions are processed, forest fires have been raging in entire Maharashtra . Though fire incidents have been detected since January, the frequency has increased in the last 15-20 days as auctions for tendu leaves have started.

Students of Goa's Kalay government school send postcards to NIO scientists to find solutions to save water

2023-04-03T08:31+0200timesofindia (en)

Students in the postcards said that mitigation measures are needed to fight forest fires and parched summers. PANAJI: Students of government high school, Kalay in Sanguem— one of the farthest and remotest schools in Goa have been concerned enough with the importance of saving water.

Students of Kalay government school send postcards to NIO scientists to find solutions to save water

2023-04-03T01:33+0200timesofindia (en)

DOING THEIR BIT: Students in the postcards said that mitigation measures are needed to fight forest fires and parched summers. Panaji: Students of government high school, Kalay in Sanguem— one of the farthest and remotest schools in Goa have been concerned enough with the importance of saving water.

State working to avoid forest fire recurrence, says Sawant

2023-03-28T20:57+0200timesofindia (en)

Porvorim: Days after forest fires ravaged several parts of the state, chief minister Pramod Sawant told the House on Tuesday that pre-fire alerts based on the danger rating system developed by the Forest Survey of India (FSI), Dehradun, are being obtained to prepare the state machinery to avoid a recurrence.

Odisha forest constitutes 33.50 pc of total geographical areas of state

2023-03-28T14:29+0200uniindia (en)

Bhubaneswar, March 28 (UNI) About 52156 sq km area of a total 1,55,707 sq km geographical area of Odisha is covered under forest, state Forest Environment and Climate Change P K Amat told the state Assembly on Tuesday. Quoting the Forest Survey of India report, 2021, Amat said the forest constituted 33.

Combating Heat Waves and The Rise In Global Temperatures

2023-03-24T08:41+0100mid-day (en)

India is currently facing the wrath of intense heat waves. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted temperatures rising above normal maximum temperatures from March 2023 to May 2023 in parts of northeast India, east and central India and some parts of northwest India.

In photos: Forest fires ruined over 67,000 ha of Odisha’s forest cover in 5 years

2023-03-23T06:12+0100downtoearth (en)

Odisha lost over 67,000 hectares of forest cover due to wildfires between 2018 and March 17, 2023. During the period, over 0.173 million forest fires were reported in Odisha, according to the state’s forest, environment and climate change minister Pradeep Kumar Amat.