Alfredo Quatro says we must defend mangrove forests – which protect our shorelines and diverse marine life – against man-made development

Odisha, which pioneered Climate Change Action Plan in 2010, is working on a similar exercise for the second phase covering the period 2015-20 to combat the challenges of climate change.

Despite a two-year-old public interest litigation (PIL 87 of 2013) on wetlands in the Bombay High Court and a report of the forest department detailing illegal activities on protected wetlands, env

Several citizens and environmental activists have come together to form a group, Harit Navi Mumbai (HNM), which will act as a helpline to save the city's greenery and biodiversity.

Mangrove crusader and environmentalist Kallen Pokkudan is slowly giving a concrete shape to his long-cherished green dream a school to train the young generation about the importance of mangrove co

On December 9, 2014, a wrecked tanker released approximately 94,000 gallons (78,271 Imperial gallons) of heavy fuel oil into the Shela River, which runs through the Sundarbans, the sprawling and re

The Kenya Forest Service has condemned the illegal cutting down of mangrove forests.

A Haitian marine biologist who successfully fought to create a national park to protect a large swath of Haiti's north coast has won a prominent U.S. environmental activism prize.

The draft Development Plan 2034 is not only filled with errors and significant omissions, but has also proposed regularization of encroachments in the eco-sensitive coastal regulation zone-I (CRZ-I