Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In re : News item published in Newspaper The Hindu dated 19.03.2023 titled “India’s Sinking Island” dated 13/10/2023. The matter related to the issue of dangers of sea level rise and submergence of low lying islands. In pursuance to the …
This is a typical Venetian locality: houses built around paved squares called campi, with a well at the centre (right). Because water harvesting was at the centre of the city's life; there isn't a clear number, but Venice would have an estimated 4,000 wells. None of the wells have pulleys, …
A writing technique used in Assam's Majuli islands since 600 AD The process: Strips from the bark of an agaru tree (15-20 years old),in separate rolls of 6-18 feet, are sun-dried and exposed to dew overnight. Then, the nikari (outer layer) is removed, the surface smoothened and cut into convenient …
Human enterprise knows no bounds, and the people of Maldives have proved this. They have built a new island to contain the overflowing population of the capital Male. "The project was launched because of land shortage in Male. We've taken a shallow lagoon and created a totally new piece of …
Human enterprise knows no bounds, and the people of Maldives have proved this. They have built a new island to contain the overflowing population of the capital Male. "The project was launched because of land shortage in Male. We've taken a shallow lagoon and created a totally new piece of …
Eloor, a river island in Kerala, is in the midst of a health crisis, thanks to 247 chemical factories operating within the vicinity of residential areas. Residents of the island are more susceptible to diseases than those living in other places of the Kochi district, indicates a study. The health …
Majuli, a river island within the two arms of the mighty Brahmaputra river, is a site having extreme historical and cultural importance, and warrants immediate exposure to the scientific community. The island faces an acute erosion problem as no permanent anti-erosion measures based on proper geohydrological models have been adopted …
The Andaman and Nicobar islands (a&n) are thought to be the emergent peaks of a submerged mountain range related to the Arakan Yoma range of mainland Burma. The islands include steep hills, and generally poor soil with little water holding capacity. Flat terrain is extremely limited and the larger islands …
The residents of Vieques, a Puerto Rican island, have achieved a landmark victory in a long-standing dispute about the us navy's activities on their island. The us navy uses Vieques to provide training to battle groups. Donald H Rumsfeld, the us defence secretary, recently ordered the navy to call off …
at least nine animals died and many sea lions, giant tortoises, colourful blue-footed boobie birds and other pelicans were affected due to an oilspill near Galapagos, an archipelago straddling the equator 1,000 km west of Ecuador. The accident happened when a vessel, Jessica, ran aground after hitting rocks on January …
west bengal's largest cluster of islands, the Sagar island, is soon going to be powered by solar energy. The island, where it is not possible to provide grid electricity, is run by diesel generators sets whose pollution is affecting the region's fragile ecosystem. The first step towards electrification through solar …
Two Pacific islands have sunk beneath the waves, the first victims of the rising seas brought about by global warming. And others are on the verge of disappearing, too. The islands
ERUPTIONS of the Galdpagos volcano Cerro Azul have forced conservationists to speed the capture of 20 endangered giant tortoises for a captive breeding programme. Recently a helicopter was hired for two days to airlift some 11 tortoises from the island of Isabela, the largest in the Galdpagos archipelago. The remaining …
A colony of green iguanas has travelled more than 300-odd km by raft across the ocean to a Caribbean island. Unbelievable? But it is true, my experts. Scientists had assumed that some animals can float huge distances across oceans, but this had never been seem Now Ellen Censky at the …
the Galapagos archipelago off the coast of Peru supports a unique ecosystem with a large variety of plants and animals. The archipelago has witnessed abnormal weather conditions this season (summer in the Southern Hemisphere) that have been attributed to the phenomenon known as El Ni
the Sagar dweep system (sds , or the Sagar group of islands) in the Bay of Bengal is teetering on the verge of total destruction due to massive soil erosion and other natural calamities. The issue has now become a matter of global ecological concern. Originally, the sds comprised about …
Officials of 160 countries would soon meet in Bonn, Germany, to negotiate cutbacks in the emissions of heat trapping gases linked to global warming. Although most experts agree that these gases may cause a rise in sea levels, there is a difference of opinion about the scale and severity of …
The Caribbean's account for three per cent of world trade in bananas, which are cultivated by small farmers and sold to the European Union (eu). However, not all the profits from the trade of Caribbean bananas go to small farmers. Fyffes, a Dublin-based mediator company dominating the uk market, has …
it could be the splash of the century and with disastrous results. The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii - 20 km long, 10 km wide and 9 km deep - is sinking into the Pacific Ocean at 7 cm a second. The volcano, one of the most active in the world, …
