Independent report of Coastal Aquaculture Authority, Chennai in the matter of Original Application No. 5 of 2021 & 9 of 2021 (SZ) filed before the National Green Tribunal. The matter related to hatcheries in the districts of Chengalpattu, Villupuram, Nagapauinam and Cuddalore Districts of Tamil Nadu. The inspection committee designated …
Accepting the “realities” of the challenges of climate change in the Sunderbans, forest department has for the first time initiated a scientific study on Thursday for in-situ monitoring of hydrological parameters on a regular real time basis. A major highlight of the study would be the availability of data from …
Hard rot disease, a fungal infection of plants characterised by lesions with hard surfaces and rotten tissue, is affecting an increasing number of pasur (Xyicarpus mekongensis pirre) trees in different parts of Sundarban, the largest mangrove forest in the world, researchers and experts said. Forest department officials, however, described it …
Last year’s flood brought miseries and devastation for the people belonging to seven coastal talukas of Thatta district but it brought about some positive environmental changes nevertheless. The flood water lowered hyper salinity graph, prepared land for paddy bumper crop in some areas, increased fishing activity and caused receding of …
Community initiative tackles perennial problem of groundwater salinity In a rare community-driven initiative, the residents of a nondescript village near Deeg in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan have solved the perennial problem of groundwater salinity by laying a one-km cement pipeline to get the Yamuna river waters from a feeder canal …
About 10.56 lakh out of 16.89 lakh hectares of coastal land in the country are affected by salinity of various degrees, according to a survey of the Soil Resources Development Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture. The findings of the survey in 2010 on saline soil of Bangladesh said that …
There is no imminent threat of sea water intrusion into the Kelani river as a result of the prevailing dry weather, National Water Supply and Drainage Board chairman Karunasena Hettiarachchi told the Daily News yesterday. He requested the public not to be deceived by false rumours that sea water has …
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa, which till the last decade used just about 14 per cent of its available groundwater, has shown a rapid rise in utilisation which has jumped to 26.14 per cent. According to assessment of the groundwater resource of the State, by the Directorate of Ground Water Survey and Investigation …
Salinity grips nearly 80 percent villages under Koira upazila in the district, causing persistent crisis of safe drinking water and extensive damage to arable lands, especially those producing paddy and vegetables. Due to high salinity following the onslaught of cyclone Aila on May 25 in 2009, paddy yield per bigha …
MoEF has accepted these recommendations of the Expert Committee on the controversial cement plant of Nirma Industries in Bhavnagar, Gujarat. Says that the plant is situated in an environmentally sensitive wetland area and the construction must stop. Final recommendations of the EAC on the project M/s Nirma Ltd. to establish …
Oysters play important roles in estuarine ecosystems but have suffered recently due to overfishing, pollution, and habitat loss. A tradeoff between growth rate and disease prevalence as a function of salinity makes the estuarine salinity transition of special concern for oyster survival and restoration. Estuarine salinity varies with discharge, so …
Representatives of development partner countries and organisations on Wednesday said Bangladesh was the worst affected by climate change and it needed a strong leadership in facing climate change and its mitigation. Climate changes are evident in Bangladesh and there is no controversy that such changes have taken place, they said …
On Thursday, the water treatment plant in Aluva near here suspended its operations for more than five hours during the early hours of the day after finding a considerable rise in salinity levels that had reached the magnitude of 1,700 p.p.m (particles per million). A delay in constructing a temporary …
Twenty years ago, divers in Dubai could swim through coral gardens teeming with brightly-colored fish and sea turtles. Today, says marine biologist Tom Goreau, dead reefs stand like gravestones for an underwater ghost town. In the United Arab Emirates, some of the world's glitziest building projects, such as the opulent …
The government wants to raise a united voice on climate change vulnerability, as it is a matter of concern for all, said State Minister for Environment and Forest Hasan Mahmud yesterday.
A formal assessment of power plant effluents dispersion and sediment transport processes taking place with respect to the prevailing environmental conditions such as, flow regime, wave climate, wind effects etc. in the open waters of Bhadreswar region, Gulf of Kutch plays important role in the finalizing the designs of CW …
In the Sundarbans mangrove forest in the Gangetic delta (10,284 km2: 58.5% in Bangladesh, 41.5% in India) human-tiger conflicts are more frequent than in any other tiger area of the world. Only a limited number of tiger victim cases reach the public. The term victim is used here for people …
Two high salinity-tolerant paddy developed by Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA) are waiting release for cultivation at farmers level in next Boro season. Trials of the two salinity-tolerant rice under Seed Certification Agency (SCA) have been completed and now the verities will be placed before the technical committee meeting …
