KOLKATA, (IANS) – Air pollution poses a significant threat to the Sundarbans, a crucial mangrove ecosystem in West Bengal that protects the region from extreme weather, warns a recent study by leading ...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], February 19 (ANI): The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has raised serious concern over the rapid erosion of land in the Sundarbans, especially the shrinking of Ghoramara ...

SUNDARBANS, (IANS) – The issue of infiltration from Bangladesh may keep raising the political temperature from time to time, but there’s one movement into the West Bengal end of the Sundarbans from ...

Sundarbans has been a hotbed of climate change, facing an existential threat from rising sea levels, frequent and intense cyclones, and increasing salinity in water.

(MENAFN- IANS) Sundarbans (West Bengal), Feb 17 (IANS) At a time when environmental protection was often treated as secondary to economic growth, Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), Founder of ...

In India’s fragile delta, climate change is compounding the hardships of “tiger widows” — women whose husbands were killed by Royal Bengal tigers — as rising seas, shrinking habitats and economic ...

Fishers in the Bangladesh Sundarbans have been struggling with income due to damage caused to the mangroves by the recent tropical cyclone Remal and also the seasonal ban on resource hunting from June ...

Boys can cook, girls can play kabaddi. In the Sundarbans delta, where social prejudice often hardens into tradition, a programme initiated by a Calcutta-based social organisation is challenging deeply ...