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Climate crisis is a gender issue, women face higher risks, less representationClimate change disproportionately impacts women, who are often excluded from decision-making despite their crucial roles in crisis response...
SC allows cutting of 45,000 mangroves for Mumbai Coastal Road projectThe Supreme Court has permitted the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to cut more than 45,000 mangroves. This is for the proposed Versova-...
CIDCO transfers over 2,000 acres mangrove land to Maharashtra forest departmentOut of the total land parcels, nearly 690 acres of land is in the possession of CIDCO, and it has given no objection to the balance of 1,55...
Coastal areas in Kerala will witness increasing sea surge in coming years: ExpertsVoicing concern over the calamities faced by the coastal community due to high waves and sea erosion, the webinar sought restoration of coa...
Man-animal conflict to rise in Sunderbans : studyThe study also brought out the fact that most of the dense mangrove forest will degrade into less dense, open mangrove forest by the turn o...
Mangrove cover grows 20% in Maharashtra in 2 yearsTen years after the Bombay high court directed the state government to declare mangroves as reserved forest, the results are showing. The m...
Increase in area covered by mangroves in Mumbai: Sudhir MungantiwarThe area covered by mangroves in Mumbai has seen a substantial rise, the Maharashtra government today said.
- ZSI monitoring climate change impact on Sundarban animals
To measure the effect of climate change on the flora and fauna of Sundarbans, the Zoological Survey of India has set up monitoring bases in...
Sunderbans mangrove trees losing capacity to absorb CO2: StudyThe vast mangrove forest in the Sunderbans is fast losing its capacity to absorb carbon dioxide, one of the main greenhouse gases, from the...
Sunderbans mangrove trees losing capacity to absorb CO2: StudyThe vast mangrove forest in Sunderbans is fast losing its capacity to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere due to rise in the salinity of water, ...
Mangroves in Maharashtra may get status of ‘reserved forests’The state government may declare mangroves as “reserved forests”. Currently, mangroves on government land are deemed “protected forests” wh...
- Fresh lease of life likely for mangroves
In a bid to arrest the rapid depletion of mangroves, the state forest department has mooted a proposal to acquire mangroves in private land...
India's mangrove cover increases, Gujarat takes the leadIndia recorded a net increase of 23.34 sqkm of mangrove cover between 2009 and 2011, thanks to efforts of one of the most industrialised st...
- 'Declare mangroves protected forests'
Is it a case of fence eating the crop? Green activists say the government is the biggest culprit for the depletion of mangrove forests in I...
- The Mangrove whisperer
A Class II dropout farm worker is the man behind Kerala's lush mangroves, and a movement.
- Navi Mumbai airport project: Patel vows to address Ramesh’s concerns
On Thursday, environment minister Jairam Ramesh had met civil aviation minister Praful Patel to sort out differences over the project.
- Fire breaks out in Bhitarkanika National Park
A blaze on Friday morning broke out in parts of Bhitarkanika national park, a Ramsar wetland site, causing destruction of mangrove species ...
- Tiger census ends in Sunderbans
A tiger census in Sunderbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, ended during which data and scats for DNA samplings of the big cats were...
- Realty boom takes a toll on mangroves
The boom in the real estate sector in Mumbai and Thane has claimed 30% of mangroves - the natural buffer between land and sea.
- State fails to meet HC deadline on mangrove mapping
The Maharashtra government is all set to cut a sorry figure before the Bombay High Court for its failure to complete satellite mapping of m...