Further, warmer and dryer days increase a forest’s vulnerability to fire, while cooler and moist weather reduces this vulnerability. In hot, dry Central India’s mixed deciduous and tropical thorn ...

Most worryingly, 46,707.11 sq km has seen very dense,moderately dense , open, and scrub ... of unclassed forests have been lost, the critique added. The way the Forest Survey of India (FSI ...

Debadityo Sinha, who leads the climate and ecosystems team at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, said India lost 30,808 sq km of open and scrub forests alongside 14,073 sq km of moderately dense ...

Memories lost to fiery gust. Saurabh Chauhan, a young writer from Shimla, composed a moving poem, just hours after a fierce fire ravaged Tandi village in Kullu on January 1, 2025. 17 houses, built ...

India's latest forest report reveals a concerning decline in forest cover across eight mountain states between 2021 and 2023, including significant losses in several northeastern states.

India’s forest and tree cover has increased by 1,445 sq km since 2021, according to the India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2023. Forest cover alone rose by 156 sq km, reaching 21.76% of the country’s ...

They also said that forest lands diverted for dams, roads, railways and other such permanent constructions are lost forever, but are not deleted from records, thus “inflating the figures”. Debadityo ...

India's total forest and tree cover reached 827,357 sq km, about 25% of the geographical area, showing a slight increase. While forest cover grew marginally, moderately dense forests declined.

The state revenue and forest departments have concluded the two-day survey of the forest land in Srinivaspur taluk that was allegedly encroached upon by former speaker KR Ramesh Kumar over two ...

Gurugram: The India State of Forest Report 2023, released Saturday by the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav, paints a grim picture of Haryana’s forest cover.

The biennial India State of Forest Report (ISFR 2023) released by Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Saturday in Dehradun reported a net gain of 156 sq km in India’s forest cover and 1,289 sq km ...

The big picture in the biennial India State of Forest Report (ISFR), released a year late, suggests that the country’s forest cover is in good shape. According to the report, India’s forest and tree ...