MUMBAI: Environmentalists who had come to place their grievances before the Coastal Zone Management Authority (CZMA) last week were in for a rude shock.

BHUBANESWAR: Orissa will soon have two national institutes for studies on wetland eco-systems and turtles.

The high living standards of the population in the west have been maintained by drawing from the ecological resources of the developing countries and this fact of environmental debt has been largely unrecognized or has not been researched up to now.

The externalities or costs to the environment are not fully paid for goods consumed in the west, which cause environmental or ecological damage in

GUWAHATI, April 27

Survey of wetlands in six north Kerala districts reveals threat to bird diversity
KALPETTA: Habitat loss is posing a severe threat to the avian population in the major wetlands in northern Kerala.