How seagrass can aid in curbing coastal erosion

These ubiquitous marine plants dissipate wave energy that can help protect vulnerable shorelines, improve water quality as well as store carbon …

New policy to help Indian communities displaced by annual river & coastal erosion drafted

Union home ministry had directed NDMA to draft a policy based on the 15th Finance Commission’s report

Odisha’s climate refugees: Satabhaya’s cattle farmers suffer in new homes

The once-prosperous community has been left to fend for itself after losing its rich economy to the ravages of the sea

‘Still uncertain how Sundarbans mangroves will evolve under climate change’

Mangrove trees produce organic matter which raises the bed elevation; a process which counteracts the effects of sea level rise

Coast is unclear

The official hostility to the most important instrument for safeguarding India's coastal ecology may prove disastrous

New rules for coasts

Environment ministry notifies CRZ 2011. It has pro-builder bias, say fishers and activists

Coastal flooding set to rise 50% over 80 yrs: Study

It could threaten assets worth 20% of global GDP, amounting to $14.2 trillion

Fishers at bay

When it was introduced in 1991, Coastal Regulation Zone was a blanket notification to protect India's coast and fisherfolk. In 17 years, it was …

Fishers reject new coastal rules

CRZ, 2010 fails to protect coasts; rights of fishers  

Master plan ahoy

Sea of death

Washed away

The draft National Environment Policy has little on coast management

Coastal folly

Coastal Regulation Zone Notification: What development are we clearing our coasts for

The Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 2018, has diluted India's only protection system for the fragile ecology and opened it up to realtors …

Look at disasters from a broader perspective, urges new report

It analyses past trends and says India has to be prepared for catastrophes even if they are not defined as natural disasters

Bureaucracy on the beach

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 …

The CMZ notification

How India’s beaches can unlock a nuclear-powered future

India’s Indigenous Prototype Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor and abundant thorium reserves hold key to India’s future energy security

Root remedy

DUAL BENEFITS

SRI LANKA

COASTLINE CONSERVATION

Garbage on the beach

Un'tidy' relocation

Tamil Nadu's post-tsunami coastal regulation bid is misdirected