After a couple of years of relative calm, fires have again ravaged the forests of Uttarakhand this summer. More blazes were reported and more forest area affected this season than the past two years put together, as an unusually hot and dry summer turned the state’s pine woods into tinderboxes. [more]
A fiery summer in Uttarakhand
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