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Intense rains quench Uttarakhand’s wildfire frenzy; Supreme Court tells state govt. to stop relying on rain god
Forest fires are a common occurrence during Uttarakhand's summers, exacerbated by the presence of h…
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Uttarakhand forest fire: Poor visibility hampers IAF's firefighting efforts
Thick smoke from an intense forest fire engulfed Srinagar in Uttarakhand's Pauri Garhwal district, …
ANI
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A conspiracy theorist who blamed the government for forest fires admitted that he started 14 himself
A Canadian man who spead online conspiracy theories that the government started forest fires pleade…
Joshua Zitser
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India to host meeting of UN Forum to deliberate on forest fires and forest certification
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is organising a Country-Led Initiative (CLI)…
ANI
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Walking the plank: climate change is making trees larger, but at a sinister hidden cost!
Scientists have discovered that in temperate regions of North America and Europe, trees have begun …
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Waste to wealth: Himachal to convert fire-prone pine needles to biogas, help reduce fossil fuel dependence
Nearly 22 per cent or 8,267 sq.km of the total forest area in Himachal Pradesh is fire-prone. A maj…
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Frequent forest fires in Tamil Nadu's Theni driven by rising temperatures puts many wild species at risk
Many species of wild animals like the Indian Guar, deer, wild boars, forest pigs have been put in d…
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Forest fires in Russia burn over 100,000 hectares in 3 days
Forest fires in Russia continued to spread and have consumed nearly 110,000 hectares of land in jus…
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Tribal women in Mayurbhanj, Odisha tie 'rakhis' to trees for protection from illegal felling and forest fires
Every year, preparations begin with a community meeting before Rakhi Purnima, presided by the Majhi…
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Photos show the devastating Colorado wildfires that scorched up to 1,000 homes and displaced more than 35,000 residents
The fires, which began on Thursday morning from what officials believe may have been a downed power…
Bethany Biron
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A New Mexico-based company that flies firefighting aircraft dropped a record-setting 12 million pounds of retardant during the busy fire season
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Taylor Rains
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Expert survivalist rates 10 wilderness survival scenes in movies and TV
Wilderness survival expert Laura Zerra rates 10 wilderness survival scenes in movies and television…
Carter Thallon
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An influencer is being investigated over claims she started a forest fire to shoot a glamorous TikTok dance video
Humaira Asghar has denied starting the fire, saying there was "no harm making videos," Al Jazeera r…
Waiyee Yip
How aerial firefighters are trained to fight forest fires
Aerial firefighters go through intense training before they're ready to fight active wildfires from…
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How aerial firefighters are trained to fight forest fires
We spent three days with Bridger Aerospace, where pilots trained in the company's signature firefig…
Clayton Dyer,Graham Flanagan
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'Zombie fires' smolder under the snow during the winter then rise from the dead come spring. They may get far more common.
A study suggests "zombie fires" that don't get extinguished in the winter may become more common in…
Aylin Woodward
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How the $30 million "Super Scooper" CL-415EAF plane was built to fight wildfires
We went inside the Super Scooper to learn how it fights forest fires from the sky and to see how ae…
Clayton Dyer,Graham Flanagan
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Siberia is on fire like never before, leaving Russia to fend off one too many hotspots
Russia is already one of the world’s worst-affected coronavirus hotspots and now it has another —…
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Devastating pictures from Uttarakhand forest fires over last four days— forests burn as North India becomes the world’s warmest region
According to the government, this may not be the worst year for wildfires as inter…
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NAACP president slams Biden's plan to cancel $10,000 in student loan debt: It's 'like pouring a bucket of ice water on a forest fire'
Derrick Johnson has previously urged Biden to forgive at least $50,000 in loans per borrower, sayin…