Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Salboni Apartment Owner’s Association Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 15/05/2025. The matter related to restoration of the Salboni Jheel, Kolkata, West Bengal. The NGT directed the West Bengal Pollution Control Board to place …
India has a vast extent of coast line of about 8000 km spanning 13 maritime mainland statesand Union Territories, which are home to a diversity of coastal and marine ecosystems,comprising nationally and globally significant biodiversity (Venkataraman and Wafar, 2005).It also supports almost 30% of its human population being dependent on …
Far-reaching effects on future regional, global climate Several different models used in the study Newly detected rising sea levels in parts of the Indian Ocean, including the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java, appear to be at least partly a result of …
Comes In From Arabian Sea Instead Of Bay Of Bengal Mumbai: The monsoon arrived on time. But weather experts have reported a new trend this year: instead of the usual Bay of Bengal route, most of the monsoon systems have hit the country from the Arabian Sea side. While monsoon …
Coastal issues and concerns: challenges for the research community prepared by Consortium of Coastal Academic Institutions for the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM). NCSCM introduce measures to greatly strengthen research and regulatory capacity at all levels; emphasis on the need for Institutions for Coastal Research; strengthen current regulatory …
Longline fishery is exerting an impact on the sea turtle populations of the seas around India, as in the case of many longline fisheries operating in other parts of the world. During the tuna longline survey conducted by four research vessels of Fishery Survey of India, 87 sea turtles were …
While the south-west monsoon has arrived in India, with Andaman & Nicobar Islands and the southern Bay of Bengal experiencing the first monsoon rains, the depression in the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a cyclonic storm, raising questions about the progress of the monsoon. Cyclone Laila, which lay centred …
NEW DELHI: The depression in the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a cyclonic storm, and lies centred 400 km east of Chennai on Tuesday evening. According to a bulletin issued by the India Meteorological Department, the system is likely to intensify further and cross the Andhra Pradesh coast, between …
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa Monday hoisted storm warning signal in four of its ports as a depression formed over south-east Bay of Bengal was likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm, an official said. A depression formed over south-east Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood lay centred at about 1,050 km south-south-east of …
Hyderabad, May 17: The state government on Sunday alerted the collectors of all the coastal districts about the formation of a depression in the Bay of Bengal. The depression, formed over the southeast Bay of Bengal around 11.30 am on Monday, lay centred on Latitude 10.5
Sriharikota (AP): The first test flight of India's indigenously developed cryogenic upper stage was "not successful" as the vehicle lost control 293 seconds after the launch and crashed into the Bay of Bengal. ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan, who informed about the test result, said "the cryogenic engine was supposed to …
Once a flashpoint in Indo-Bangla ties, the New Moore island or Purbasha in the Bay of Bengal, which Dhaka called the South Talpatti, has ceased to exist, consumed by hungry tides and the rising sea. This was announced on Monday by the School of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University after it …
Aerosols: Integrating an understanding of source-receptor relationships with climate forcing on regional scales a paper presented by Chandra Venkataraman at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
Francis and Gadgil1 have made many interesting correlations of meteorological variables and events, and have proposed that unfavourable SST (sea surface temperature) gradient between the Bay of Bengal and EEIO (eastern equatorial Indian ocean) led to the large deficit of monsoon rainfall in 2009.
Bacterial population in the coastal water of Orissa, up to 10 km from shoreline along 6 transects were observed during 2005-06 and 2006-07. Total viable counts (TVC), total coliforms (TC), faecal coliforms (FC), faecal streptococci (FS), presumptive E. coli, Shigella, Salmonella, Proteus/Klebsiella, total Vibrio, Vibrio cholera, V. parahaemolyticus and Pseudomonas …
This paper highlights published cases related to various climatic conditions that have impacts on rice cultivation practices. Due to the needs to continue rice farming, whether for traditional, cultural or economic reasons, rice farmers in Asia resorted to various adaptation practices that might have deviated from their common practices. This …
We present evidence that the Indian Sundarbans is experiencing the effects of climate change over the last three decades. Observations of selected variables, such as the surface water temperature, salinity, pH, dissolved oxygen, and transparency show significant long-term variation over a period of 27 years (1980
After an early onset over Kerala on 23 May 2009, further advance of the monsoon over the Indian region was delayed by about two weeks with the monsoon restricted to the west coast and southern peninsula until 24 June. This resulted in a massive deficit in the all-India rainfall of …
