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 …
Barely 30 years ago, playful Bottlenose Dolphins were among the plethora of sea creatures that used to happily cavort and thrive in the waters off the Vizag coast. Today, this mammal along with the Olive Ridley turtle is among the over 21 species including the whale shark, Pristis fish, Zygaena …
The deep depression over Bay of Bengal, which moved westwards on Sunday, was lying about 500 km south-south-east of Paradip. The India Meteorological Department said the system would move slowly in a west-south-west direction towards South Andhra Pradesh and North Tamil Nadu coast and weaken gradually during the next 48 …
Flash floods on the edge of high terrain, such as the Himalayas or Rocky Mountains, are especially dangerous and hard to predict. The Leh flood of 2010 at the edge of the Himalayan Plateau in India is an example of the tragic consequences of such storms. The flood occurred over …
Being a low laying deltaic country, the morphological changes of the coastal zones of Bangladesh become a major social, economic and environmental concern. In this study, images of Landsat satellite during 1989-2010 are analyzed to detect the variation of shoreline positions. The western-central coast has been divided into different segments …
A deepwater well in a Krishna Godavari basin block operated by state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has been leaking gas for two months and there are now fears of environment damage due to the uncontrolled flow. The well G-1-9 in Bay of Bengal has been leaking gas since …
A deep depression hovering over the Bay of Bengal may intensify into a cyclonic storm by Tuesday morning and is likely to cross the north Tamil Nadu coast and adjoining south Andhra Pradesh by October 31 midnight, the Met office said. The deep depression lay over the southwest Bay of …
A recently published report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has made an assessment of the extreme climate events. Their past trends, future projections and vulnerability and adaptation to such events are discussed in the report. The report was based on the efforts of both the working groups …
BALASORE: A day after the Indian Army struck gold with Prithvi-II, the Navy on Friday achieved another milestone in its on-going strategic programme with the successful flight testing of nuke-capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile, ‘Dhanush’, from a Naval warship in the Bay of Bengal. The trial termed as ‘training exercise’ was …
Three people died and one remained untraced on Tuesday as rains wreaked havoc across the state. Thousands of hectares of paddy were submerged and many low-lying areas in the cities were inundated. Met office sources said that a low pressure area over the Bay of Bengal along Coastal Andhra and …
At least five private companies under scanner The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a preliminary enquiry to probe alleged irregularities in issuance of licences to at least five private companies for exploration of mineral wealth in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea during 2010-11. Conspiracy The prime …
New Delhi After filing a series of cases in the coal block allocation scam, the CBI has now been tasked with unearthing alleged irregularities in the allocation of offshore mining licenses to private firms. The CBI has registered a preliminary enquiry into allocation of 62 off-shore mineral blocks in the …
NEW DELHI, 24 SEPT: Just a week after filing cases in the coal block allocation scam, the CBI has begun probing alleged irregularities in the country's first-ever attempt to explore untapped mineral wealth worth thousands of crores lying in the deep sea bed, sensing another mega scam. CBI sources said …
Bhubaneswar: With the water levels on the rise in major rivers following heavy rains in the upper catchments and release of surplus water from various reservoirs, the state government today directed the concerned departments to take precautionary measures against possible flood. With the Met department warning for heavy shower during …
The Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) has remained remarkably stable during the last 140 years. The ISMR has varied between 70% and 120% of the long-term average of about 85 cm. Monsoon seasons with ISMR of less than 90% of the average are considered to be droughts, whereas those with …
More than one billion people live in regions affected by the South Asian summer monsoon. This Review provides an overview of our understanding of summer monsoon rainfall variability and its causes, and considers how the monsoon will change as a consequence of global warming.
With the monsoon continuing to elude many parts of India, the central government has asked the governments of Maharashtra and Karnataka to implement contingency plans in the wake of low rainfall, and is monitoring the situation in Rajasthan and the Saurashtra region in Gujarat. As of today, the southwest monsoon …
The major reason for production shortfall was delays in project implementation by ONGC and Cairn Energy India missed oil and natural gas production targets by a wide margin due to fall in output at Reliance Industries' KG-D6 fields and delays in implementation of project by ONGC, according to Planning Commission. …
Bangladesh is one of the most disaster prone countries of the world and here climatic events are considered an integral part of the social fabric. More than 3.5 million coastal peoples’ livelihood directly or indirectly depend on fishing and related activities under extremely difficult conditions, and their economic hardship is …
Study conducted by ocean scientistson tropical cyclone activity Will a tropical cyclone occur in the Bay of Bengal this October-December? It might, if there is a cooling of the western Pacific Ocean due to La Nina phenomenon. And the good news is that it could be predicted a few months …
The growing risks and impacts of climate change and the accompanying loss of ecosystem services require the world to urgently invest in a new development paradigm. As the UN’s global development network, UNDP recognizes the increasing urgency of mainstreaming climate change into sustainable development planning at all levels, linking development …
