PIB Corner
Fire in World's Largest Wetland ‘Pantanal’
- Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland is burning with the worst fires in last 15 years.
- It sprawls across three South American countries—Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay.
- The region is a vast flood plain that normally fills with water during the rainy season, roughly from November to March. But the floods were lower than normal this year and a subsequent drought has left the area dangerously susceptible to fire.
- In Brazil's Pantanal, the vegetation compacted under the marshy flood water during the wet season dries out as ponds and lagoons evaporate, leaving flammable deposits underground that can ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Related Content
- 1 ‘SUJALAM’ Campaign for making more ODF Plus Villages
- 2 Indian Scientists develop Carbon-based Wrapper for preserving Fruits
- 3 Grant-in-aid to Rural Local Bodies
- 4 Project 75 (I): RFP issued for Six Conventional Submarines
- 5 KASEZ: India’s First Green Industrial City”
- 6 DBT approves Funding for MRNA-based COVID-19 Vaccine - HGCO19 for Clinical Trials
- 7 e-RUPI: A Digital Payment Solution
- 8 PIB Corner
- 9 PIB Corner
- 10 PIB Corner
