The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Maharashtra fishermen will approach the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) against the proposed coastal road from Madh to Nariman point in Mumbai. They claim their livelihood will be at risk if the 32-kilometer road is allowed to be built. The project can not take off without MoEF clearance. …
Sri Lanka's Coast Conservation Department has announced that it is to take measures to fine on a daily basis the owners of illegal buildings on the island's coasts till they remove those buildings. Director General of the Coast Conservation Department Anil Premaratne has said that approval has been granted to …
Many eyebrows were raised on Thursday evening as Reliance Industries Ltd Chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani paid a surprise visit to the headquarters of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Ambani had a two hour long meeting with civic chief Subodh Kumar and discussed many issues related to infrastructure development of …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA) on Wednesday organised mock tsunami drills at cyclone shelters of six coastal districts. This exercise was held as a part of the drill scheduled to be held simultaneously in 20 Indian Ocean nations, including India. The exercise aimed at testing the Indian …
This document published by the GTZ has been produced in the context of an ongoing project in which the GTZ and the Ministry of Environment and Forests are working together to devise ways of dealing with the inevitable impacts of climate change, which aims to strengthen the capacities of rural …
Several UN entities have issued a Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability, which highlights the role of oceans in sustainable development and offers recommendations ahead of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20). This Blueprint provides an overview of the threats faced by the oceans, including unsustainable use, …
Calcutta, Sept. 5: The government has decided to use a “major portion” of World Bank funds for the preservation of Bengal’s coastline to develop and beautify the East Midnapore beach resorts of Digha and Shankarpur. Environment minister Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar said today that the World Bank would give Rs 300 …
BALASORE: Just 100 metres from the sea, they dread the hungry tidal waves. Gokul Jena with his six-member family in Chandrabali village in Bhogarai block panics every minute. Around 200 people belonging to 35 families in the village are living in the fear of losing their home and hearth as …
Kendrapada: Work on is on to save a vulnerable coastal embankment, where cracks have appeared, protecting a cluster of thickly-populated human settlement from tidal waves in coastal Kendrapada district. Cracks appeared in the 700-metre-long embankment on August 29-30 when mighty tidal waves smashed the Pentha coast in Rajnagar Tehsil. The …
Gujarat's environment and forests department is aiming to bring an additional area of 120 sq km along the State's coastline under mangrove cover by the end of the financial year 2011-12. “We aim to carry out plantation of mangroves in 120 sq km area by the end of this year. …
The Goa government’s reluctance to scrap a controversial shipyard project has left the 200-odd families of Chicalim village distraught. In 2005, Bharti Shipyard Limited proposed to construct a Rs 250-crore shipyard on about 0.8 hectare of mudflats in the ecologically fragile Chicalim Bay in Mormugao taluka. The Goa Coastal Zone …
Visakhapatnam city in particular, and the surrounding coastal region upto Srikakulam, is at a critical juncture and should opt for green development, saving the local communities and the fragile environs, rather than follow the destructive model of development being pursued in the other regions, according to Ms Sunita Narain, Director …
The UK has assured Bangladesh of increasing its contribution to climate change resilience fund to 150 million pounds from the current 75 million pounds. Alan Duncan, UK minister of state for international development, gave the assurance in a meeting with State Minister for Environment and Forests Hasan Mahmud at his …
The UNEP has launched a report titled "Taking Steps Toward Marine and Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management: An Introductory Guide." The report highlights how planners and policy makers in local, national and regional governments can adopt an ecosystem-based management (EBM) approach to help ensure sustainable development for marine and coastal environments and …
MARGAO, Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority on Thursday directed Project Director of Rural Development Agency, South, to halt all type of construction and related works on the retaining wall on the banks of a rivulet, a tributary of River Sal at Dongorim-Navelim. In his order, GCZMA Member Secretary Michael D
MUMBAI: The state government's intent to reclaim certain coastal stretches in the city to build coastal roads, the Nhava-Sewri Mumbai Trans Harbour Link as well as the Charkop and Mankhurd metro depots now has only one avenue left to stay on course
Surreal beach sight: Half-smashed houses with fronts wide open, and people still living We were on a beach, somewhere close to Puducherry. It was a surreal sight: half-smashed houses with fronts wide open, and people still living in them. The devastation was caused not by a sea storm or cyclone, …
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa will soon have two national institutes for studies on wetland eco-systems and turtles. The two centres will be set up at a total investment of Rs 50 crore, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here today. A National Centre for Wetland and Coastal …
Nearly four months after the amended Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification was introduced by the Union Government, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to map the city
PARADIP: The activists of Posco Pratirodha Sangram Samiti, the organisation spearheading anti-Posco movement, demonstrated at Balitutha on Friday ahead of Union Forest and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh visit to Bhitarkanika. They have been staking their claim under Forest Rights Act and demanding withdrawal of conditional forest clearance to Posco project. …
