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 …
If you are planning a weekend trip to the Sunderbans, you can now look beyond the Sajnekhali wildlife sanctuary. With the state notifying the West Sunderbans Wildlife Sanctuary last month, the UNESCO World Heritage Site got its largest sanctuary. Comprising the forests of Chulkathi and Dhulibashani, this will be the …
Camera trapped census of the Bengal Tiger population and monitoring in the Sundarbans kicked off here today. More than a thousand field workers are using 89 cameras for trapping to count the total tiger population in the Bangladesh part of the world's largest mangrove forest, which also covers part of …
Preparing a health card for an ecosystem may sound a strange concept. However, an exercise to make one for Gujarat’s famous Marine National Park and Gulf of Kutch is currently underway. The idea behind the initiative undertaken by Gujarat Ecology Commission (GEC) in collaboration with University of Maryland and National …
The Bombay high court order directing the state government to ban construction on wetlands can lend a lease of life to acres around the city’s coast where either construction or dumping of debris has destroyed mangroves, say activists. On Monday, the HC directed the state government to issue a circular …
Prominent environmental activists from Kochi surveyed the mangroves on Mulavakad island here on Tuesday, only to find that much of the mangrove wealth of the region had been destroyed in the name of development activities. A group of eight environmentalists set out to survey the state of mangroves in the …
The Bombay high court on Monday directed the state government to issue a circular to all civic bodies to ensure that no construction or reclamation is permitted on wetlands in Maharashtra. Adivision bench of Justice V M Kanade and Justice S C Gupte also directed the government to state if …
Ending a period of some speculation, India's Ministry of Environment & Forests ( MoEF) has placed its show-cause notice to the Adani Group online. The matter can be traced back to September 2012 when environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan set up a committee headed by environmentalist Sunita Narain to investigate persistent …
NEARLY one in four people on earth live in the countries that border the Bay of Bengal. The region is strategically vital to Asia's rising powers. Its low-lying littoral - including coastal regions of eastern India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra - is home to over half …
Nearly one in four people on earth live in the countries that border the Bay of Bengal. The region is strategically vital to Asia's rising powers. Its low-lying littoral - including coastal regions of eastern India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra - is home to over half …
Orissa on the East Coast along with West Bengal and Andhrapradesh has the locational disadvantage of being in the path of depression of severe cyclonic storms that occur before the onset of south-west monsoon or after it recedes .The super Cyclone and severe Cyclone of October 1999 devastated 14 prosperous …
The oil spill on the Uran coast close to Mumbai is larger than what was estimated, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has said. The admission came two days after the leak of crude oil from an ONGC pipeline. It took 12 hours to cap. Initially the MPCB estimated that …
Vincent Island has over 15 hectares of mangroves The estuarine Vincent Island on Ashtamudi Lake at Shakthikulangara in Kollam is a private property covered by over 15 hectares of rich mangrove forests. The island is the only place in India where the rare yellow mangrove ( Ceriops tagal ) is …
A new initiative launched today will raise money for community projects in Kenya by protecting and restoring the country's dwindling mangrove forests. The plan is to sell carbon credits earned by preserving the mangrove swamps to companies and individuals aiming to offset their carbon emissions and improve their green credentials. …
The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) strongly criticised Thursday the government move for setting up the Rampal power plant project near the Sundarban mangrove forest and urged the authorities concerned to shift it to another suitable place. "The implementation of the coal-based project is giving a 'wrong signal' to the international …
Extreme weather, sea-level rise and degraded coastal ecosystems are placing people and property at greater risk of damage from coastal hazards. The likelihood and magnitude of losses may be reduced by intact reefs and coastal vegetation1, especially when those habitats fringe vulnerable communities and infrastructure. Using five sea-level-rise scenarios, we …
A public interest litigation writ petition was filed before the High Court on Sunday seeking stay on the proposed coal-fired power plant at Rampal near Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, until assessment of the environmental impact of the project,. The petitioners, four lawyers of the Supreme Court, also sought …
Issue of show cause notice for alleged violations with regard to development of port facilities at Mundra, District Kutch, Gujarat to M/s Adani Port and SEZ Ltd from Ministry of Environment & Forests dated 30/09/2013.
The Union Environment Ministry's report on the Nayachar island, submitted before the National Green Tribunal, comes as a major stumbling block for the state government, which had proposed to set up a thermal power plant and an ecotourism centre there. The report says that the island, located near Haldia, is …
Construction of a proposed 1,320 megawatt (mw) coal-fired thermal power plant at Rampal, near the Sundarbans, will threaten the biggest mangrove forests of the world and home of the endangered Royal Bengal Tigers, said the TIME magazine on Thursday. Smoke-belching behemoth near the Sundarbans National Park of Bangladesh will also …
The government has decided to lay the foundation of the coal-based Rampal Thermal Power Plant in Bagerhat near the Sundarbans on Oct 22, ignoring environmental activists vehement and widespread opposition. The Prime Minister's Energy Adviser Tawfiq-E-Elahi Chowdhury disclosed it at a press conference held at Bidyut Bhaban in the capital …
