In ocean’s way

People watch helplessly as the sea nibbles the Konkan coast, swallowing groves and beaches, and shallowing creeks

Threatened marine life

Digha in troubled waters

Shifting sands of (mal) development

Net bill, gross disaster

The Aquaculture Authority Bill makes a mockery of the Supreme Court ruling on aquaculture firms

A risky route

A Rs 12,000-crore coastal road project in Mumbai is facing stiff resistance from fishers, urban planners and environmentalists. But, the …

'All these sites have multiple stresses affecting them. Climate change only adds to that'

Adam Markham, Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Deputy Director for Climate and Energy and lead author of UNESCO’s recent report on World …

Blocking the sea

A thought for marine life

Playing with sea

Flouting laws, over 90 hotels have mushroomed on what once was a pristine beach in West Bengal

Eyeing the coastlines

Further dilution of the rules safeguarding the Indian coastal ecosystem has just been proposed. Under the guise of providing land to poor …

Bureaucracy on the beach

Illegal buildings trigger erosion, threaten Puri beach

Natural allies

Mother of three wages lone battle against sand mining lobby

Jazeera along with her three children has been sitting in protest from June 14 in front of government offices, demanding protection of Kerala's …

Mangroves' rescue act

Scientists stress that conserving mangroves will provide an important buffer to save coastal regions from the ravages of sea level rise due to …

Turtles return to nest

Eyeing the coastlines

Further dilution of the rules safeguarding the Indian coastal ecosystem has just been proposed. Under the guise of providing land to poor …

Jazeera’s sit-in protest against coastal sand mining enters third month

Mother of three has been sitting outside Kerala’s state secretariat since August 2; her children attend school from protest site and sleep …

Nowhere to nest

Olive Ridleys jostle for space at the shrinking Gahirmatha beach in Odisha

Deep sea blues

Bad news for the oceans, is bad news for the environment, the economy and humans

SRI LANKA

Deep waters

Puducherry's plans for a new port have prompted unprecedented protests. Allegations of a huge land grab facilitated by procedural violations and …

Goa must grow...but how?

On January 26, 2007, the government of Goa withdrew its newest blueprint for the development of the state, called the Regional Plan 2011. …

28 years of Earth’s surface changes on Google

Watch a city expand or a glacier shrink through a series of satellite images; see the altering landscape at four spots in India