Source: IRIN
Country: India
By Nimisha Jaiswal
DELHI, 5 May 2016
India is burning.
Well, large parts of it are burning. There have been more forest fires in the first four drought-stricken months of 2016 than in each of the entire previous three years, the Ministry of Environment said this week.
A combination of high temperatures and extremely dry weather – conditions linked to the weather phenomenon El Niño – have turned India into a tinderbox.
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