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 …

Silt spells trouble for Sukhna lake

Chemical imbalance

Waters of the Sunderbans are turning hostile to estuarine life

Black soil in red: Climate change threatens world’s food basket

FAO report finds most black soils moderate to severely eroded due to land-use change, unsustainable practices 

India needs to protect its wetland flora

Wetland flora help maintain ecological balance and need to be conserved. However, only 68 wetlands are protected in India so far

'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 …

India’s coasts in danger, finds Parliamentary panel: MoEF&CC depended on World Bank funds, facing massive cuts

National Coastal Mission budget cut from Rs 723 crore in proposal to just Rs 12.50 crore in allocation

Bytes

Spate of neglect

Blocking the sea

How communities in China helped keep desertification at bay

A fast-ageing population could deter efforts to achieve the United Nation’s target of zero land degradation by 2030

Jungle story

How the world's first human-made forest is being sustained by an indigenous community in Assam despite a range of threats

Root out erosion

Drought monitoring: Untapped data

Government does little with records that could help reduce effect of drought on agriculture

India’s agrarian distress: Can we revive our fatigued soils

Intensive cultivation and improper nutrient replenishment have affected soil fertility. Stagnating or declining yields are the telltales

Puri may have no water left in a decade

Rapid construction and encroachment in Odisha’s main tourist hub threaten water supplies

No to shipyard

The Rs 300-crore project is being builtin Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore district

A thought for marine life

Brahmaputra rail bridge project suffers delays

Neermahal: palace on shrinking lake

Bureaucracy on the beach

Playing with sea

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

Marine pollution, coastal development: Coral reefs need to be saved

Coral reefs face mounting threats: 10% of them have degraded across the globe, another 30% may disappear within next 20 years 

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 …

Farmers quit mentha

Overexploitation of water leaves very little for farming