Monitor vessel

Age no bar

Mercury can affect even adolescent brains

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Fishers reject new coastal rules

CRZ, 2010 fails to protect coasts; rights of fishers  

Goodbye Indian mermaid

Science and Technology - Briefs

In Court

Olive Ridley nesting begins: Over 500,000 turtles lay eggs in 4 days at Odisha’s Gahirmatha sanctuary

Space crunch has pushed several female turtles to return to sea. But they will be back in a few days to nest

Climate change? Experts are not sure as Olive Ridley ‘Arribada’ starts a month early at Odisha’s Rushikulya

Suitable climatic and beach conditions are the reasons for the early mass nesting of Olive Ridley turtles this year, according to experts  

UNEP chooses Nigeria to lead action to combat marine pollution in Africa

Country will be in charge of coordination efforts of 22 nations

Biodiversity meet: Parties disagree on resource mobilisation

Contact group to now fix individual financial targets for countries

By the whiskers

Another Alang in the making

Andhra Pradesh is in choppy waters over a proposed ship breaking yard at Vodarevu

Shelling out remedies

Marine organisms like bivalves hold cures for viral diseases

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New coastal rules draft made public

Fishers say proposed CRZ notification does not recognize their rights

Factories poison Khed

Villagers angry over chemical effluents in their drinking water

Winds of change

El Nio, a weather phenomenon caused by a complex interaction between atmospheric and oceanic conditions has ushered in drought, forest fires and …

Letters

Still life in waves

The visual media is into the business of producing images. Sometimes, just sometimes, they become iconic. For disasters there is a recognisable …

Sethusamudram alternative route not feasible: report

Supreme Court gives Centre eight weeks to decide fate of the project

Hole hazards

Aqua guard

Denmark introduces an advanced system to moniter oxygen depletion and waste dumping in seawater

Way to oblivion

That's where the Asian sea horses might be headed

Cold diversity

Antarctica's larval diversity can warn us of the effects of climate change