Experts feel that the Indus delta is fast drying up and devastating the lower Sindh region in Pakistan. There has been very little water in the river downstream of Kotri for five years now, which has

Indian government classifies wetlands as wastelands despite the fact that they serve as reservoirs of ecological diversity. During times of floods, they act as sponge, which hold water and release

following the bursting of an effluent pipeline running through a marine national park in Jamnagar, Gujarat, more than 7,000 mangrove trees and rare marine plants and animals were destroyed. The

The term cyclone includes all tropical storms. They start as swirls of cloud and rain that eventually intensify into storms.The Indian sub-continent is the worst affected part in the world. Although

mangrove vegetation along the 30,000 square kilometre coastline of Gujarat has reduced by 33.5 per cent in past two decades, reveals satellite data from the space application centre of the Indian

chilika lake, Asia's biggest saltwater lake, situated in Orissa is still awaiting a complete ban on prawn farming. Despite violent conflicts between traditional and non-traditional fishermen over

Orissa cyclone death toll was higher due to the destruction of mangrove forests

The Andhra Pradesh government has given an assurance that the interests of the small farmers and the landless poor will not be ignored during the distribution of 35 lakh hectares of degraded forest

How shrimp cultivation turned a mangrove forest into a saline desert

Pakistan federal minister

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