How bio-restoration is helping revive degraded mangroves in Sunderbans

Involves plantation of native salt-tolerant grasses, a diverse set of carefully identified mangrove species in different zones of degraded …

India on high alert after massive oil spill threatens Sunderbans ecology

Despite warnings from environmentalists, Bangladesh allowed commercial shipping through the sensitive ecological zone of Sela river in 2011

Sunk for security reasons

Damage by salt

Biodiversity barrier

Close encounters

Drying wetlands

Beyond the tigers of Sunderbans: A closer look at the leeches and the beautiful blue devil

Bangladesh allows nearly 200 polluting factories near Sundarbans

As environmentalists raise concerns over this free-for-all, all eyes are now on the High Court, which has stayed the permissions, and will hold …

PROTECTING FISH

DANGEROUS EXPLORATION

Sundarbans needs a development model sensitive to local biodiversity

Conservationists at an international workshop call for a paradigm shift towards eco-centric development to improve resilience of the fragile delta

Entangled

10,000+ south Bengal fisherfolk, in a net not of their making

Rescue act

NHRC raps Mamata govt on silicosis rehabilitation

At least 250 people from Minakhan block in Sunderbans contracted the disease when they left home to work as labourers in stone and mineral …

Oil spill in Bangladesh’s Sela river threatens dolphin sanctuary

Nearly 350,000 litres of furnace oil spilled in the river on December 9

Our forests are burning

People's relationship to the forest

Cyclone Amphan may batter Sundarbans. How ready is Bengal

State govt plans to evacuate at least 0.2 mln people from three districts in the region  

Of plants and bees

Depleting honeybees threaten biodiversity

Prepaid cards for unlimited electricity

Two cyclones and a gas leak: Journey of migrants between urban precariousness and ravaged villages

A report narrates the story of three migrants from Assam and West Bengal who have been uprooted from their hometowns by extreme climate events or …

Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (March 8-15)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Marine antibiotic

From a microbe found in the Sunderbans

Documentary films on climate change