New study maps India’s diverging fire regimes
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New research from the Centre for Wildlife Studies evaluated changing fire regimes in wildlife reserves across three Indian landscapes, finding that burned area rose most steeply in the Eastern Ghats between 2002 and 2022, at 9.3% per year. The rising fires in the Eastern Ghats show that it has a more fire-prone combination of vegetation, […]
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