Order of the Bombay High Court in the matter of Adani Cementation Limited Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/03/2025. Adani Cementation Limited approached the Bombay High Court seeking issuance of an order directing the respondents/ authorities to permit the petitioner to carry out the work of construction of …
A UK-based climate change expert has said that there will be an exceptional change in the temperatures in Pakistan as a whole in the coming years, but that the province of Sindh will be less affected as compared to the other parts of the country. Speaking to senior officials and …
MUMBAI: Environmentalists are breathing easy after the announcement of a further delay in the commencement of the Mumbai transharbour link connecting the island city to the mainland. The Rs 6,000 crore Sewri-Nhava Sheva sea link project had invited the wrath of the environmentalists as they felt it would hamper the …
Mumbai The state government on Wednesday moved the Bombay High Court to clear some technical hurdle regarding coastal regulation rules for the proposed international airport coming up at Navi Mumbai. Advocate General Ravi Kadam submitted that the state was having difficulties in getting clearance from the Ministry of Environment and …
The new study, conducted by scientists at the University of Delhi, India, and Duke University in the United States, analysed the 1999 'super cyclone' that ravaged Orissa, killing an estimated 10,000 people. Mangroves
Mumbai City's hope of getting a landfill site to accommodate the 6,000 tonnes garbage it disposes each day seems to be fast diminishing with environmentalists opposing the BMC
Sangeetha Neeraja RESTORED Mangroves at Pichavaram played a role in mitigating the impact of Tsunami. Today, it stands as a precedent in evolving sustainable community centric conservation biosheild modules. M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, with many years of pioneering research, has developed models of mangrove and non-mangrove bioshield that has …
Forest Minister Binoy Viswom arriving for the meeting of forest officials, environmentalists and nature lovers at Mangalavanam on Sunday. KOCHI: The state government was studying the possibility of setting up a tree authority and bringing in the Tree Act in the state, said Forests Minister Benoy Viswom. The Minister said …
Camels grazing in the mangrove forest, small fishing boats anchored on shore and naked children playing with dead fish. This scene can be a great opening to a documentary however reality paints a different picture of it. No one knows the decades of pain the residents of Kaka Pir Goth, …
Mango production in the region is appeared to fall around 25 to 30 percent this season due to the continuous drought like climatic condition frustrating the farmers and the traders concerned. Horticulture scientists and the farmers said that the green mangoes are falling abnormally for the last couple of days …
Protection against coastal disasters has been identified as an important service of mangrove ecosystems. Empirical studies on this service have been criticized, however, for using small samples and inadequately controlling for confounding factors. We used data on several hundred villages to test the impact of mangroves on human deaths during …
The tsunami of December 26, 2004, devastated many coastal areas in Sri Lanka. Curiously, the tsunami spared several areas which had mangroves - dense forests of salt-resistant trees and shrubs that grow in brackish, low-lying coastal swamps in the tropics and subtropics. This clearly manifested in Bangladesh, which recorded very …
Commercial considerations are taking a heavy toll on the popular mangrove swamps in Sri Lanka, with environmentalists asking for effective measures to preserve them. Mangrove plants has helped in water flow and enhancing the possession of sediments in the water system. A study said healthy mangrove forests helped save Sri …
Environmental experts have expressed concern over the reduction of mangrove forests along the Sindh coast, warning that if the mangroves are not protected, the city fears a greater risk of being hit by a tsunami in the future.
Court to decide on airport in eco-sensitive zone THE Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has refused permission for the proposed Navi Mumbai International Airport. The ministry has asked the Maharashtra government to first get it cleared from the Bombay High Court. Eight hundred hectares (ha) of mangroves that …
Mangroves are typical group of plants which are adopted for survival in sheltered brackish-water habitats along coasts of tropical and sub-tropical regions. Maharashtra is one of the important coastal state
Keora (Sonnertia appetula) is the main species in the coastal region of Bangladesh. At present this species has no industrial or other application. In this paper, keora has been characterized and evaluated as a pulping raw material.
Digha-Junput coastline of Bay of Bengal, India is unique in its own peculiar features obtained through geomorphic changes. Natural colonization of certain mangrove and halophytes on mud flat could be noticed on this coastline. An exploration was taken for search and identification of naturally colonized halophytes and mangrove medicinal plants …
Mumbai A large belt of mangrove forest on the western bank of the Thane Creek has received a new lease of life after the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee suggested steps to preserve and develop it on Wednesday. The committee, in a hearing on the private forest issue, has recommended …
