Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Microbes aside, upward of nine in 10 species crowd into the 30% of Earth's surface that's dry. It wasn't always that way, say a pair of researchers at the University of California (UC), Davis, who have been studying land and ocean features to understand how evolution proceeds in these two …
Intensive sampling was carried out in the marine environment of Mumbai and Jawaharlal Nehru ports to investigate the composition of benthic sessile population on three different occasions during 2001 to 2002. this study recorded 29 species of hard substratum fauna and 14 associated fauna. The acorn barnacle Balanus amphitrite and …
Anecdotally it is often said that fishers are the best inventors of marine conservation technologies. In this paper I describe case studies of Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) and dolphin conservation technology, offering empirical evidence that fishers are successful inventors of marine conservation technology. I describe the Local Inventor Effect, in …
Conservation practitioners are increasingly turning to incentive-based approaches to encourage local resource users to change behaviors that impact biodiversity and natural habitat. We assess the design and performance of marine conservation interventions with varying types of incentives through an analysis of case studies from around the world. Here we focus …
Mass strandings of beaked whales (family Ziphiidae) have been reported in the scientific liter-ature since 1874. Several recent mass strandings of beaked whales have been reported to coincide with naval active sonar exercises. To obtain the broad-est assessment of surface ship naval active sonar operations coinciding with beaked whale mass …
The diversity and spatial patterns of polychaetes, a proven proxy for environmental assessment studies, were studied in 28 stations covering subtidal and intertidal segments as well as bunders and docks of the Mumbai Port. Univariate and multivariate analyses of polychaete data were used to determine the level of environmental degradation …
S Raja | COMMONLY known as the sea cow, Dugong dugon fights for survival in Indian waters, especially near the Gulf of Mannar region. Their numbers have been dwindling due to an increase in fishing with banned equipment. Environmentalists have urged the Centre to take steps to announce the sea …
The odd whale, dolphin or shark swimming near Bombay High may not drop dead as it passes by the garbage dump that is Mumbai's coastline, but it is no indicator of the health of the local marine ecosystem. Less hardy species like molluscs and small fish are bearing the brunt …
Sudha Nambudiri KOCHI: A disease in marine life can wipe out the entire marine produce leading to economic loss to aqua culturists. White spot and white tail are two diseases affecting giant freshwater prawn macrobrachium rosenbergii (deMan), commonly known as scampi. They can affect aquaculture and destroy the entire population …
ALAPPUZHA: Many of the anthropogenic activities adversely affect marine biodiversity, and the globalwarming which brings about change in the temperature and wind pattern makes ocean difficult for animals to survive, said F G Benno Pereira, coordinator, Conservation Research Group, department of Aquaculture and Biochemistry, St Alberts College. He was presenting …
Andrew C. Revkin There is sufficient scientific evidence of rising stress on the marine mammals from climate change. Half a century after Pacific walruses began recovering from industrial-scale hunting, marine biologists are growing worried that they face a mounting threat from global warming. Masses of the lumbering Arctic denizens have …
A team of experts from the shipping ministry is reaching Paradip port on Saturday to inspect Black Rose, a Mongolian ship that sank about 1.6 miles off the coast on September 9 with 924 tonnes of furnace oil and 48 tonnes of diesel. The decision to dispatch the team was …
S M Arun | SCUBA diving has begun to catch the attention of environmentalists in Tamil Nadu. People's Action for Development (PAD), an NGO at Vembar in Thoothukudi, is making scuba diving a reality for researchers and environmentalists. Scuba, acronym for Self- Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, is a device that …
RABINDRA NATH CHOUDHURY and AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO BHUBANESWAR/PARADIP The worst fear appears to have come true. Oil spillage has begun from Black Rose, the cargo ship that sank on September 9 off the Bay of Bengal coast, nearly seven km away from Orissa's Paradip port. The oil leakage threatens to …
A fisherman showing an African Mushi caught from the Periyar where the species is beginning to threaten the biodiversity of the river. KOCHI: The Periyar lake has been heavily invaded by African Mushi (clarias gariepinus) making it almost certain that the endangered local fishes in the water body would become …
