In a bad fire year, Australia records over 450,000 hotspots

These maps show where the risks have increased over 20 years

20 Indian cities saw 80% of building fire deaths

The latest Indian Risk Survey report ranks fire outbreak as the third biggest risk to businesses

India’s forest fires are getting bigger and hotter, like the rest of the world

There were around 340 incidences of fires on the last day of March 2022

Fires rage on in Mizoram’s Lawngtlai; under control elsewhere

Fires in Mizoram are yet to be doused in certain areas of Lawngtlai; locals blame lack of rainfall

India needs a new approach to fire safety

In addition the codes governing fire safety and governance, we should have guidelines and framework to conduct a comprehensive risk-assessment …

Odisha hospital fire reveals critical safety gaps, low level of preparedness

Even if the fire broke out due to short circuit as has been claimed, why it couldn’t be doused at an initial stage?

6 dead in Srisailum hydroelectric plant fire

6 admitted in hospital, search on for 3 more

Sariska Fire: IAF fighting blaze with choppers; no tigers harmed, says official

The fire started on March 27 afternoon and has gone out ofcontrol

Climate change is real: Six months on, Uttarakhand forests still ablaze

Forest fires that began in Uttarakhand on October 15 last year are still burning due to less rainfall and rising temperatures

Fire load in modern buildings 3 times greater than in 1990s: study

IIT-Gandhinagar researchers found that average fire load energy density was three times the average found during a study done conducted 20 years …

Climate change turned Canada into tinderbox, doubled chances of extreme wildfires: Research

Fire weather like this can be expected to occur once every 25 years, meaning about a 4% chance every year

Clear and collect Chir pine needles to prevent forest fires: parliamentary panel

Among its many recommendations was the use of drones to monitor forest fires

In Chile, huge wildfires have killed at least 131 people — but one village was almost untouched

Climate change means it is likely that Chile will be even more prone to huge fires in future

Summer bushfires: How are the plant and animal survivors 6 months on? We mapped their recovery

Australia roared into 2020 as a land on fire. The human and property loss was staggering, but the damage to nature was equally hard to fathom

Nearly 3 bln animals perished in Australian bushfires: WWF study

An estimated 143 million mammals, 180 million birds, 51 million frogs and 2.5 billion reptiles affected

Jaipur landfill burns for weeks amid lockdown

Administration has hard time in finding fire brigades to spare due to lockdown

Odisha recorded the most forest fires in India last season

A total of 345,989 forest fires were recorded across the country. 

In Brazil’s rainforests, the worst fires are likely still to come

Bolsonaro inherited weakened environment laws that he seems to be bent on weakening further

Forest fire in two districts of Mizoram; IAF helicopters to help put it down

Lunglei, one of the Mizoram districts affected by a forest fire April 24, is among the most fire-prone in India

Malviya Nagar fire incident is an example of what makes Delhi a tinderbox

Given the serious threat that such fire incidents cause to human health, the Delhi administration has to answer why it has not yet taken action …

Misty solution

Asbestos substitute

Youth from Odisha’s Kandhamal show the way to combat forest fires

Youths here held several meetings with the villagers and explained climate change as well as methods to mitigate forest fires at the community level

Fire recorded at 23,000 points across Odisha in one week: Forest Survey of India

Rise in forest fires across Odisha this year can be clearly attributed to a lack of proper planning

Earthquakes in Vanuatu and Indonesia along Pacific’s ‘Ring of Fire’

Indonesia and Vanuatu sit on the Pacific Ring of Fire, the arc of seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean where most of the world’s …