A fine balance

The business of ecotourism is set to boom worldwide. Who will gain and who will lose?

Rudderless

Ecotourism is the new buzzword in the Indian government

The enterprise

Keeping both the environment and economy afloat

Brinksman

As Le Clemenceau bobs on the horizon, reactions in India get sharper, noisier. We've discovered occupational safety. Asbestos is used in …

Target India

There is no preparedness in India against El Nio, the Indian government does not even have an action plan

Global havoc

Changes in the weather patterns due to El Nio have resulted in a flood of natural disasters across the globe. Agriculture is the worst hit

Uncertainty of conservation science

Species that need protection are rare, shy and difficult to spot

Curious case of seaweed

AquAgri pays highest sum in royalty but benefits do not reach people

Goodbye Indian mermaid

The word is management

A divided house

Duplicity

The CMZ notification

Right of way

Explaining the chemistry of an oil spill

Oil tanker spills compound the danger to the marine food chain by crude released into the sea in normal operations and seepage from the earth. …

Underwater ship graves

Seventy years after the largest seaborne invasion in history, World War II shipwrecks still pose environmental risks

Virgin islands In peril

Tourism planned in Sri Lanka’s islands threatens their fragile ecosystem and the lives of people there

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 …

Some nets and sunshine

Fishers in a Tamil Nadu village save cost and improve catch with solar panel-fitted boats

Our quality of mercy

Fishing in truobled water

Does India need to import exotic fish species, when the experience with them has not been particularly good? Besides, the country already boasts …

Oceans may run out of fish population in 50 years

Fish might die in the next fifty years, or will they?

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 …

Bay in distress

A proposed shipyard threatens the rich biodiversity of a south Goa bay, but government is unmoved

The seabirds have flown