The Bombay high court on Thursday wondered if the state government has made any alternative arrangement to tackle natural disasters and questioned its preparedness while hearing a PIL on the destru

High-Security Areas Like Navy Nagar Also Not Spared

Pakistan's National Committee Members, expressing concern over the negative impact of the Zulfikarabad Project on Country's largest Mangroves forest pleaded for an adequate environmental impacts as

Thane, Vasai and Vaitarna creeks are three of the 17 sites in Maharashtra that have been identified as “Important Coastal and Marine Biodiversity Areas (ICMBA)” by the Wildlife Institute of India (

More than a year after the state’s decision to notify all mangroves on public land as ‘reserved forests’, around 5,482 hectares of mangroves on government land in Thane and Raigad districts will be

An expert committee set up to ascertain whether the wetlands at Kopri in Thane have been reclaimed for an upcoming Special Economic Zone (SEZ) were denied entry to the area on three occasions.

The FSI-2013 report also includes 12 states of the country which have mangrove cover. Of these states, Gujarat is the only one to show a significant growth — of 45 sq km — in mangrove forests.

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) on Wednesday granted environment and Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance for the 8,481 hectares of Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Kutch district t

More than 34 square kms of forest cover in the state has increased in the two-year period between 2011-13, reveals the latest biannual report from Forest Survey of India (FSI), a body under the Min