Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
Adaptation financing entails a multitude of challenges when it comes to selecting and implementing measures that are to be sustainable. This article depicts general difficulties with respect to adaptation financing. It also describes an approach developed and tested in two coastal states of India to promote community-based climate change adaptation …
In a bid to provide protection to vital installations along the Gujarat coastline, the State Government has undertaken a project to study how coastal vegetation could help in mitigating the impact of natural disasters like tsunami and cyclone. The bio-shield project, being implemented by the Gujarat Coastal Zone Management Authority …
Erosion by the River Bangali that took a serious turn rendered over 300 families homeless at Shariakandi upazila in Bogra in the last week. People residing on the bank of the river are in trouble being panicked by the river erosion. Local sources said over 1000 people at different villages …
In June 2009 Government of Karnataka (GoK) constituted a Coordination Committee to oversee and coordinate the state’s response to climate change. It assigned the mandate to prepare the State Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC) to Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute (EMPRI). In the planning process, the committee emphasised …
Rising seas forecast from climate change will likely wash away some of California's most iconic beaches by century's end, along with hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate, roads and tax revenues, a new study found on Wednesday. "If beaches disappear, shrink and erode, we are going to have …
Europe's seas are changing at an unprecedented rate as ice sheets melt, temperatures rise and marine life migrates due to climate change, a report by the Climate Change and European Marine Ecosystem Research (CLAMER) project warned. Scientists examined a mass of EU-funded research on the impacts of climate change on …
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 …
As the international community mobilizes in response to global climatic changes, climate funds must ensure the equitable and effective allocation of funds for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Women and girls, disproportionately vulnerable to negative climate change impacts in developing countries, have largely been excluded from climate change finance policies …
Kendrapada: A three-member team of oceanography experts from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai, made an on-the-spot inspection to conduct a comprehensive study of the erosion- prone coast at Pentha under Rajnagar block. According to official sources, the experts have decided for a thorough scientific study of the erosion-hit coastline …
Kerala is yet to figure in the mining industry map of the country. But two villages in the state are showing characteristics of mining areas in other parts of the country—environmental degradation and conflict. Sea sand mining by two public sector companies has caused continuous sea surge in Ponaman and …
Sea erosion intensifies in coastal districts; gruel centres set up Bangalore: Heavy downpour over the past three days has claimed three lives and disrupted normal life in several parts of the State. Hanumanthappa Adiveppa Kari (65) was killed in a house collapse at Devagiri in Haveri taluk on Sunday. A …
In a significant mo-ve, the ministry of environment and forests has come out with a tough policy on setting up ports and thermal power projects clusters. The Union environment minister, Mr Jairam Ramesh said that ports were banned in high erosion zones of coastal states and retrofitting might be an …
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } It is being called a spectacular success - but also a lost opportunity. With floodwaters rising to record levels along the Lower Mississippi river, the system of levees and spillways that protect the low-lying cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans faced an unprecedented test. …
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } When humans try to constrain rivers, the results can be calamitous. (Editorial) http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028142.700-mississippi-delta-blues.html
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 …
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide US$ 47.3 million loan to Bangladesh to reduce poverty and hunger of the people living on chars (newly accreted coastal lands). The loan agreement for the Char Development and Settlement Project IV was signed yesterday (Monday) in Rome by Bangladesh ambassador …
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 …
