The enemy that faces his team of five bedraggled men is fierce and unrelenting — an uncontrolled forest fire that is spreading quickly in the Singtur range of Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district.

Three labourers were killed while another was injured while trying to douse a forest fire in Almora district of Uttarakhand, making it the first deaths this year in forest fires that have been ...

A Springer study reveals alarming evidence of climate change effects in Uttarakhand's Himalayas, linked to an increase in ...

The National Green Tribunal has directed the MoEFFCC and other officials to address critical deficiencies in Uttarakhand's forest fire management. Key issues include a lack of essential ...

The lush-green mountains in the background usually make the famous Nainital lake in Uttarakhand state of northern India more picturesque. But for several weeks now haze from forest fires has ...

Thick smoke from an intense forest fire engulfed Srinagar in Uttarakhand 's Pauri Garhwal district, causing significant delays in aerial firefighting operations by the Indian Air Force (IAF).

Forest fires are a common occurrence during Uttarakhand's summers, exacerbated by the presence of highly flammable pine trees covering vast expanses of the region. Since November last year ...

Uttarakhand suffers from a glaring lack of essential infrastructure required for effective forest fire management, an amicus curiae report in the National Green Tribunal (NGT) said on a matter ...

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand's forest department is gearing up to tackle the frequent forest fires that plague the state's mountainous regions during summer months. To mitigate these fires, the state ...