After a delay of over six years, Goa has a 400-page blueprint for development. But the Goa Final Regional Plan 2011 has environmental groups, urban planners and the public up in arms. They want it to

Mangroves contribute generously to oceanic carbon

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

indian scientists have digitally mapped rich flora spread over an area of about 84,000 square kilometres of thick forest. The first phase of this exercise was

Bangladesh has banned tree-felling in its Sundarbans mangrove

A new report paints a grim picture of the world s coastal areas

the Centre is putting pressure on the Gujarat government to denotify country's first marine park located in the Gulf of Kachchh and make way for industrialisation. According to reports in