pollution levels have reached alarming proportions in Mumbai, severely affecting the fish catch and other marine resources. B R Subramaniam, director of the Department of Ocean Development, blames

Several fish species in Kerala are threatened by overfishing and the release of effluents in the coastal waters

Even as experts argue that seawalls are not an answer to coastal erosion, the Kerala government is planning another project

A California state jury has directed the owner of a tanker that spilled 76.4 million litres of oil in 1990 near two popular beaches in the US state to pay US $18 million for damages caused by the

at least 25 people were killed and

With the southwestern monsoon arriving

The official hostility to the most important instrument for safeguarding India's coastal ecology may prove disastrous

it could be the splash of the century and with disastrous results. The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii - 20 km long, 10 km wide and 9 km deep - is sinking into the Pacific Ocean at 7 cm a second. The

Officials of 160 countries would soon meet in Bonn, Germany, to negotiate cutbacks in the emissions of heat trapping gases linked to global warming. Although most experts agree that these gases may

Wetlands across Nigeria face threats from developmental activities