Simply Put: Great Nicobar Mega Project

Coast Guard cleans up oil spill off Nicobar

Indian crews successfully contained a huge oil spill near the Great Nicobar island. Now, the ministry of environment and forests must assess the …

Low-pressure area to form over Andaman Sea by April 30: IMD

The low-pressure area will likely change into a depression by May 2

The first Indians

Among the world's oldest indigenous populations, too

Collateral risk

Seized foreign vessels pollute sea near Andaman islands

Andaman & Nicobar turtles face extinction

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are the third most significant biodiversity hotspot in India. With a coastline of 1962 kilometres and many …

Big seizure

A house for the islander

Illogical plans for post-tsunami housing on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands omen trouble

COVID-19 threatens indigenous peoples of Andaman and Nicobar

The last speaker of a Great Andamanese language died recently in Port Blair of tuberculosis as COVID-19 reached the Andaman and Nicobar islands

Monsoon arrives over Bay of Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar archipelago

Except some eastern parts of India and most of the Northeast, all regions may receive good rainfall, according to the India Meteorological …

Monsoon plays Jekyll and Hyde

Pleasure island

Southwest monsoon progresses after stalling for 12 days

Experts Down To Earth spoke to suspect the stalling is connected with Typhoon Mawar, which has rapidly intensified in the Pacific Ocean

Mocha to intensify into very severe cyclonic storm: IMD

Andaman and Nicobar Islands are likely to receive heavy to very heavy rains until May 12

Harbour wave: New tech is updating our knowledge about how big the rupture on Boxing Day was  

The rupture could have been as long as 1,400 km if a 2021 study is to be believed  

India’s turtle researchers oppose development plans for Little Andaman, Great Nicobar islands

The islands have global significance for global Leatherback turtle conservation and are also home to indigenous peoples like the Onge and the Shompen

Andamans want 'absolute protection' for saltwater crocodile to be withdrawn

The union territory’s administration has sent a proposal to delist the animal from Schedule 1 of the Wldlife Protection Act ‘in order …

Does government know one ecotourism from another?

Is the Andaman Works Department an expert body on eco-tourism? It will, in the near future, monitor the construction of hotels and resorts on …

UNITED NATIONS

Felling forbidden

Supreme Court order may benefit Andaman natives

Rooting out felling

Andaman officials cite livelihood issue to justify logging

In Short

IMD predicts low-pressure area over southeast Bay of Bengal 

The storm will move north-northeastwards towards the east-central Bay of Bengal till May 11, skirting the Andaman Islands

Agasthyamala included in UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserve

The Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve comprises of tropical forests and is home to 2,254 species of higher plants including about 400 that are …

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