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Fire in the mountain sparks debate on jhum safety

Barasha Das 26 Jun 2025
A dry pond catches fire. Representative image by Balurbala via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Wildfires rage amid dry weather and heat waves

Max Martin 23 Apr 2025
Controlled burning in Dibang Valley district, Arunachal Pradesh

Wildfires and the forgotten science of community forest management [Commentary]

Ranjan Kumar Ghosh and Pranab Ranjan Choudhury 25 Feb 2025

Uttarakhand forests burn while fire guards face outstanding salaries and lack of resources

Megha Prakash 5 Aug 2024
Pine needles being collected from the forest floor at Sunderbani forests, Nowshera Forest Division

Converting pine needles from a fire risk into a livelihood opportunity

Hirra Azmat 1 Apr 2024

We didn’t start the fire? Speculations over cause of Goa forest fires continue; state plans recovery

Noopur Bhandiwad 16 Jun 2023

Himachal’s ecology under pressure; around 31 forest fires per day in April-June this year

Vivek Gupta 8 Jul 2022

[Explainer] The good, the bad, and the ugly side of forest fires

Anusha Krishnan 29 Jun 2022

[Commentary] What students and citizens can do about forest fires in Kodaikanal

Nikil Sankar Narayanan 28 Jun 2022
The forest near Jashipur in the buffer area of STR on fire. Photo by Pragati Prava.

Chhattisgarh forest fires continue while forest staff remain on strike

Alok Prakash Putul 11 Apr 2022

Protecting a forest on a hill in Imphal

Sanskrita Bharadwaj 20 Oct 2021

With more forest fires and an ongoing pandemic, forest dwellers feel the heat this year

Manish Chandra Mishra 28 May 2021
The forest near Jashipur in the buffer area of STR on fire. Photo by Pragati Prava.

Communities or forest department? Similipal fires rake up debate on ownership of National Park

Pragati Prava 15 Mar 2021

The rolling ashes from Dzukou hills write back

Rini Barman 19 Feb 2021

About 43 million hectares of forest lost in 14 years

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2021
Nectar plant and host plants are important for butterfly habitat. Sunflower, marigold, lantana, petunia, hibiscus are some common nectar plants in India. Photo- Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay

As butterfly parks come up for awareness, butterflies continue to lose habitat overall

Manish Chandra Mishra 25 Dec 2020

Conserving the grass on Himalayan slopes

Hridayesh Joshi 4 Dec 2020

Lantana invasion threatens 40 percent of India’s tiger habitat, reports study

Rajat Rastogi 18 Aug 2020

During lockdown foresters try to balance field work and prevention of disease spread

Mayank Aggarwal, Sahana Ghosh and Kartik Chandramouli 30 Mar 2020

The evolving story of India’s forests

Mayank Aggarwal 27 Feb 2020