Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of The Goa Foundation Vs The Goa State Environment Impact Assessment Authority & Others dated 10/07/2023. The SC, July 10, 2023 gave directions for halting the construction of Tiracol river bridge till further orders. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) in …
PANJIM: The beaches of Goa being the main assets for the promotion of tourism, the Department of Tourism ensures that the existing facilities on the beaches are not only maintained but also improved wherever necessary. Access roads, parking facilities, illumination near the beaches, modern toilet facilities are being provided with …
We were on a beach. Somewhere close to Puducherry. The sight was surreal: half-smashed houses with wide open fronts, people still living in them. The devastation was caused not by a sea storm or a cyclone, but by the eroded beach. The sea had crept up to the village; there …
PANJIM, A division bench of Bombay High Court at Goa comprising Justice S C Dharmadhikari and F M Reis stayed till further notice on Tuesday a Rs 25 lakh proposal of the Tourism Department to illuminate public beaches in North Goa. The order was recorded in a PIL filed by …
Over 10,000 people clean 20 beaches in 43 km coastline Mangalore, Mangalore beaches were buzzing with people, this time not to party but to clean the coastline. The district administration as a part of Clean, Green and Progressive Mangalore launched
On February 26, as night fell on the tranquil Gahirmatha beach in Odisha, thousands of Olive Ridley turtles crawled in. Using their rear flippers, they dug pits in the soft beach sand and started laying eggs, more than 100 at a time. Then they skilfully covered the nests with sand …
Ask Chennai's fisherfolk and they will tell you that the road to hell is built on stilts. Various Central and state government agencies plan to construct three controversial expressways on stilts in the coastal city. These roads will displace more than 1 lakh people — mostly urban poor — and …
Surathkal, Jan 6, DHNS : While factories pollute the sea by letting chemicals flow at Mithrapatna near Sasihitlu here, fish processing units dump the garbage on the seashore posing threat to the environment. Garbage of a fish processing unit dumped on the seashore at Mithrapatna near Sasihitlu in Surathkal. Garbage …
G Saravanan | ENS Ahead of PM's visit, bitumen scraped from road near Adyar Poonga emptied onto coast barely 10 metres away from sea IN yet another serious violation of the coastal regulations, the Chennai Corporation has dumped a large quantity of debris -mainly bitumen scraped out of the road …
ON NOVEMBER 18, there was a dust-up between farmers and fishers at Murthikuppam in Puducherry’s Bahour Commune over who would get to talk to the environment ministry’s representative visiting the area. The representative from the ministry’s Bengaluru regional office, U Sridharan, was there to seek views on the partially constructed …
Satyasundar Barik BHUBANESWAR: Will the spectacular sight of mass congregation of endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles for mating and nesting on the beaches of Gahirmatha become history? The beaches coming under the Gahirmatha Marine Wildlife Sanctuary have shrunk considerably. A 32-km-long beach has shrunk to less than one kilometre in …
Beaches along most of the shorelines of the world, exhibit variations in their geometric form over different time scales in response to the prevailing dynamic forces due to waves, tides and associated currents. The periods and intensity of erosion and accretion alternate over time and are generally coupled to nearshore …
The Chennai Corporation on Tuesday announced that a fine of Rs.100 would be collected from people who violate the plastic ban on the Marina Beach. Inspecting the development works in progress at the Marina, Mayor M. Subramanian said,
SHWETA KAMAT PANJIM, OCT 12 The Ocean Researchers have warned that prompt cleaning of the beaches need to be done to avoid long term impact of tar-balls. The researchers have also suggested that if required even a top layer of the sand should be replaced.
RAMANATHAPURAM: Commandant D.S. Saini, Commanding Officer, Coast Guard Station, Mandapam, said that about nine tonnes of marine litter was cleared in the Coastal Cleanup Day, which was spearheaded by the Coast Guard at Agnitheertham shore in Rameswaram and other coastal areas. He said that the beaches of Ariyaman near Uchipuli …
Shyam Balasubramanian | ENS Shyam B Chennai, A bunch of young boys stood on the beach facing the sunrise. They stared in utter concentration at the point where the waves washed up against the shore. Suddenly, one of the boys dived at the ebbing wave with a loud whoop, catching …
Thick, black tar balls, some of them as large as a foot in diameter, have washed ashore on Majali and Tilamati beaches, 8 kms from here. Dr Ulhas Naik and Dr Shivkumar, faculty members of the Postgraduate Centre for Marine Biology here, say this unusual phenomenon has been noticed for …
