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Number Theory: Record fires in Uttarakhand, Himachal and J&K as winter turns dry

An HT analysis of satellite data suggests that fires in the two hill states and Jammu & Kashmir are unprecedented this January

Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, and Jammu & Kashmir have reported 1102, 925, and 486 fires from January 1 to January 15(ANI)
Published on Jan 16, 2024 05:07 PM IST
By, New Delhi

Himachal Pradesh: Forest fire engulfs Bashisht, Shanag jungles in Manali; property worth crores of Rupees burnt

The raging forest fire has resulted in the loss of crores of rupees of property due to the forest fire in Manali, with the flames reducing valuable assets to ashes.

HT Image
Updated on Jan 15, 2024 09:14 AM IST
ANI |

Forest fire training for villagers helps to protect the Western Ghats

The training offered by the forest department and Raintree Foundation, a non-profit organisation, as part of the forest fire management project, made this feasible

Villagers draw fire lines as a precaution to avert forest fire at Sakhargaon village in Velhe tehsil in Pune. (HT PHOTO)
Updated on Apr 16, 2023 11:07 PM IST
ByGayatri Vajpeyee

Forest fire fears over new Greek migrant camp

Officials say it is desperately needed on an island at the forefront of Europe's migrant crisis, where hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers have arrived from countries such as Syria and Afghanistan since 2015.

In this aerial view taken on June 6, 2022 in the outskirts of a dense pine forest of the island of Lesbos, construction is underway on a new migrant camp for 3,000 people over the objections of many local residents. (AFP)
Published on Jun 09, 2022 09:09 PM IST
AFP |

Forest fire triggers several landmine explosions along LoC in J&K's Poonch

The fire that started in a forest across the LoC on Monday spread to the Indian side in the Mendhar sector, they said.

Forest fire | Representational image(Twitter/ANI)
Published on May 18, 2022 07:15 PM IST
PTI |

Similipal Sanctuary fire: Odisha CM asks officials to take preventive measures

Additional chief secretary, department of forests and environment, Dr Mona Sharma gave the CM a status report and said that the blaze has been brought under control and no casualties have been reported.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.(HT photo)
Updated on Mar 04, 2021 01:53 PM IST
Written by Prashasti Singh, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

Uttarakhand to start controlled burning in Uttarkashi to check forest fires

Almost nine hectares of jungles have been burnt in forest fires in the past 20 days in Uttarkashi division.

Forest fires have been plaguing Uttarkashi for the past three weeks.(Representative Photo/HT)
Published on Nov 01, 2020 03:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | ByHT correspondent

Daily fire bulletin to be issued in Uttarakhand to keep fake news on forest fires under check

The bulletin will give updates on active forest fire, area affected, work done to control wildfire, among other details.

The state forest department is using innovative pine needle check-dam technology in a bid to reduce the forest fire incidents.(HT Photo)
Updated on Jun 02, 2020 05:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | BySuparna Roy | Edited by Sparshita Saxena

Uttarakhand’s Rudraprayag forest division launches app to monitor forest fires

The mobile application also has information on fire awareness along with a provision for people to volunteer and help the forest department in controlling fires.

Uttarakhand forest department has around 174 watchtowers and 1,437 station crews across the state to keep a tab on the forest fires.(Representative Photo/HT)
Updated on May 10, 2020 08:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | BySuparna Roy | Edited by: Amit Chaturvedi

Sholay, Dabangg dialogues to educate about forest fires in Uttarakhand

With lockdown relaxations and movement allowed in green zones from today, officials also fear that forest fire incidents could increase.

Elaborating upon the initiative, the officer said the main idea behind such awareness posters was to make people stop and read them so that they take the information back with them.
Updated on May 04, 2020 04:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | BySuparna Roy | Edited by Ashutosh Tripathi

Three killed in forest fire in Kerala

The guards got into flames while they were trying to control a wildfire which began on Sunday afternoon.

(AP File Photo/Representative Image)
Updated on Feb 17, 2020 11:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | By

Families homeless at Christmas after forest fire in Chilean port

The blaze started in grassy, wooded areas but rapidly advanced to populated neighbourhoods in Valparaiso. There were no deaths from the fire that had burned 150 hectares.

A man uses his cell phone to take a photo of his burning house during a fire in Valparaiso, Chile, December 24, 2019.(Reuters photo)
Updated on Dec 26, 2019 10:12 AM IST
Valparaíso, Chile | ByAgence France-Presse

Indonesia arrests around 200 over forest fires

Nearly every year, Indonesian forest fires spread health-damaging haze across the country and into neighboring Malaysia and Singapore.

A wooden hut burns due to a forest fire in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan province, Indonesia.(REUTERS)
Updated on Sep 16, 2019 07:58 PM IST
Jakarta (Indonesia) | ByAssociated Press

‘Thirsting, ill and ablaze, Germany’s forests in critical state’: Agriculture minister

Environmental lobby group BUND in Germany also called for a focus on replanting forests that had become monocultures as a result of past reforestation plans that had focused on planting only fast-growing trees.

Germany’s agriculture minister Julia Kloeckner, a month before “forest summit”, said that forest fires, drought and insect infestations have left Germany’s forests in a critical state.(Photo: @JuliaKloeckner/ Twitter)
Updated on Aug 30, 2019 06:05 PM IST
Berlin | ByReuters

With 73,000 incidents, forest fires singe Amazon; smoke seen from space

Venezuela ranked second with 26,453 fires and Bolivia with 16,101 fires in Amazonian rainforests under their territory

American agency NOAA released photos of smoke that could be seen from space.(AP)
Updated on Aug 22, 2019 10:59 AM IST
New Delhi | ByAgencies

A parched India doesn’t need more bad news

The pre-monsoon rainfall has been poor. The monsoon, hopefully, won’t disappoint

Will the pre-monsoon delays have any impact on the monsoon? We don’t know yet. According to the India Meteorological Department, the monsoon may hit Kerala’s coast only by June 8 as opposed to the earlier prediction of June 6. A parched India does not need any more bad news.(VIVEK NAIR/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Jun 05, 2019 06:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By

Over 2,000 fire alerts reported from Uttarakhand in one week, over 1700 ha forest lost

The Indian Meteorological Department has predicted that conditions in the state are likely to become worse and forest fire will spread as maximum temperature is expected to go up till 40 degrees Celsius this week.

Uttarakhand has already lost over 1798 hectares of forest including 1341 hectares of reserve forest.(HT File)
Published on May 29, 2019 03:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | BySuparna Roy

Forest fires pose grave threat to green cover in Uttarakhand

According to forest officials, over 90 % of the forest fires are man-made. The rest are due to lightning, friction caused by falling rocks and monkeys throwing stones that trigger sparks, resulting in forest fires.

Fire fighters, forest personnel and members of State Disaster Response Force jointly try to extinguish a forest fire in Tehri, Uttarakhand.(HT Photo)
Updated on Apr 23, 2019 03:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Nainital | By

Wildfires burnt 6,533 hectares of forest in Mumbai, losses pegged at 90 crore

The RTI query by Mumbai-based environment group Watchdog Foundation revealed data on forest fires across Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Kolhapur, Nashik and Aurangabad regions 2015 and 2019

More than 95% forest fires in the state are man-made for agricultural and land acquisition purposes, forest officials said(HT Photo)
Published on Apr 01, 2019 12:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | ByBadri Chatterjee, Mumbai

Core areas of Bandipur hit by forest fire, say experts

The fire that had spread to a vast area of the Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Karnataka in the past few days has been brought under “total control”, the state forest department said Tuesday.

Rescue officials assist in extinguishing a forest fire at Bandipur Tiger Reserve, in Bandipur. Image for representation.(PTI file photo)
Updated on Feb 26, 2019 11:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByJayashree Nandi

To save India’s forests, we need a change in our mindset and skill set

The Bandipur fire shows that activists with wildlife and human rights skills have to work with state governments

Thousands of hectares of some of the best tiger habitat have been burnt down and, with it, hundreds of birds, smaller mammals and the young of both tigers, leopards and so many other animals have either been displaced or burnt to cinders(PTI)
Updated on Feb 26, 2019 08:06 PM IST
ByValmik Thapar

Bandipur national park: Karnataka’s unique biodiversity hotspot with an array of threatened species

The park, one of the most protected reserves,constitutes one of the largest contiguous forests in the country along with neighbouring national parks of Nagarhole in Karnataka, Mudumalai in Tamil Nadu and Wayanad wildlife sanctuary in Kerala.

Karnataka’s unique biodiversity hotspot with an array of threatened species.(AFP)
Updated on Feb 26, 2019 08:07 AM IST
Bengaluru | BySibi Arasu

Bandipur forest fire stoked by bureaucratic friction, inaction

For the fourth day in a row, the dry deciduous forests of Bandipur were up in flames, destroying an estimated 3,000 hectares of forests that are home to tigers, leopards, civets, sambar deer and four-horned antelopes among other animals.

Bandipur: Rescue officials assist in extinguishing a forest fire at Bandipur Tiger Reserve, in Bandipur.(PTI)
Published on Feb 25, 2019 11:24 PM IST
Bengaluru/New Delhi | BySibi Arasu and Jayashree Nandi

Four cases of forest fire in Uttarakhand in a week, 2 months before season arrives

On Saturday, fire was reported from a forest in Almora district’s Someshwar region, and is said to have reportedly destroyed many shrubs and different varieties of grasses

Officials put the beginning of forest fire season in Uttarakhand around the middle of February and say it lasts until the end of June.(AP File / Representative Photo)
Updated on Dec 19, 2018 03:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | BySuparna Roy, Dehradun

Massive fire in Mumbai’s Aarey forest near Infinity IT Park doused

According to Mumbai fire brigade, the fire, which was confined to trees and dry leaves, spread across an area of about 3-4 kilometers. Although, there were no reported casualties, a heavy damage to the forest is being feared.

A major fire erupted in the Aarey forest near Goregaon suburb of north-west Mumbai on Monday evenin(Satyabrata Tripathy/HT Photo)
Updated on Dec 04, 2018 08:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | BySteffy Thevar

Lessons for India from the California forest fires

The country must set up a robust mechanism to protect its natural resource. In an age of climate variability, such lack of preparedness can put India’s forest wealth at a huge risk

Firefighter Jose Corona sprays water as flames consume from the Camp Fire consume a home in Magalia, Calif, November 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)(AP)
Published on Nov 15, 2018 01:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By

More forest fires may burn as climate change triggers extreme weather patterns, warns govt

A recent report said dry tropical forests are increasingly under pressure from climate change, deforestation, fragmentation and fire. It further identifies weather, climate change-induced extremities, topography and people as the main causes of forest fires.

Dry and moist deciduous forests in the borderlands of Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Telangana are affected by fires every year.(AFP File Photo)
Updated on Oct 10, 2018 09:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByJayashree Nandi

Trump tweets California wildfires magnifying as water is being diverted; confusion erupts

Collectively dubbed the Mendocino Complex, the wildfires have burned through 114,850 hectares -- an area nearly the size of the sprawling city of Los Angeles -- and are just 30% contained.

Wind-driven flames roll over a hill towards homes during the River Fire (Mendocino Complex) near Lakeport, on August 2.(Reuters photo)
Updated on Aug 07, 2018 10:55 AM IST
Los Angeles | ByAgencies

Uttarakhand loses 86 lakh to forest fires this year

Uttarakhand has lost 4,538 hectares of vegetation to forest fires this year, incurring a loss of ₹86 lakh in the process. The official forest fire season began on February 15 and ended on June 15.

Although the official forest fire season is over, sporadic incidents of fire are still being recorded from different parts of the state. Officials say there hasn’t been enough rainfall this year.(HT/File Photo)
Published on Jun 22, 2018 07:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | By

Forest fires wreak havoc in Chamba, deputy ranger dies trying to douse flames

Deputy ranger, Ashok Kumar, was a resident of Pukhri in Chamba district.He was leading a seven-member team in dousing a fire raging in Bengla forest at Jot on Tuesday evening.

Ten districts of Himachal, except Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti, have been affected by forest fires this summer.(HT/REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE)
Updated on May 31, 2018 04:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dharamshala | By, Dharamshala
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