BHUBANESWAR: As an unusually early summer has raised temperature by two to three degrees Celsius above average in Odisha ...

Ahead of the summer season, Environment Minister Eshwar Khandre has directed forest officials to be alert to prevent forest fires. Mr. Khandre has asked officials to take precautionary measures to ...

As authorities issued an advisory in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday to prepare for the looming risk of forest fires, data shows that in the past five fire seasons alone, India has reported a ...

The author would like to acknowledge the invaluable contribution of Adivasi activist Soni Sori, who shared firsthand images taken by Adivasi community members in the forests of Chhattisgarh ...

Forest Survey of India has been releasing biannual reports on the status of Indian forests. The last report was released on December 31, 2021, and the current report which was due in December 2023 ...

"If what replaces a forest after it is cut down is also termed a 'forest', can there ever be forest loss?" Over 25 percent of India's total land area has forest and tree cover, according to the ...

The state of Chhattisgarh in India's tribal heartland has been the ... Around 44% of the region's land area is covered by dense forests. These forests are home to vital plant and animal species ...

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of India’s Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) has granted ex-post facto clearances to these camps in the Geleky and Hailakandi reserve forests ...

The approval pertains to the diversion of 26.1 hectares within the Geleky Reserved Forest, situated along the volatile Assam-Nagaland border in Sivasagar Forest Division. The Forest Advisory ...

While the rest of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir forests are often wreaked by widespread summer fires ... tens of thousands to evacuate, India is equally concerned about how ...