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As western wildfires burn through millions of forested acres, they are igniting debates about our response that are almost as heated as the flames themselves. The leaders of the US Forest Service have known that fire begets discord since 1905,
India’s Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar recently made a case in Parliament for creating urban forests to provide lungs to cities gasping for clean air and introducing
A latest report titled ‘Rights Based Conservation: The path to preserving Earth’s biological and cultural diversity?’ by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) points out that India needs over US $688 billion — nearly one-fourth
You might not know that the tyres from your new electric SUV could be pushing orangutans closer to extinction. Or, that the wheels on your diesel hatchback are adding to the microplastics in our oceans. You might be blissfully unaware of the
A study published in Ecology Letters finds that human disturbance affects the disease dynamics of a place through its effect on the prevalence of host and parasite species in the geography, as reported by Mongabay-India. Researchers from the Indian Institute of
This is with reference to the article “Bolsonaro defangs rules aimed at saving Amazon” (July 4). This isn’t news, but adds to the repertoire of the news against Bolsonaro. His agenda is the destruction of the Amazon forests. The statistics aren’t
Two C-130 Hercules aircraft carrying thousands of liters of water on Sunday began dousing fires devouring chunks of the world's largest rainforest.
In a recent bushfire in Australia, 2000 hectares of forest was burnt. Koalas in this region now live in the fire zone (“Hundreds of koalas feared dead in Australia bushfire”, Oct. 31, Gulf Today).
Even as India receives an outpouring of aid from several countries to tackle the numbing and devastating effects of the pandemic, collaboration on other urgent issues cannot be set aside. In early May, India and Britain agreed to work together on plans to combat
Hundreds of people are still missing, authorities say, stoking fears the death toll will keep climbing as more bodies are found on hillsides and houses devastated by the wildfires.