Climate Change

Climate contours: living with change - biodiversity, communities and livelihoods

Climate Change Impacts on Freshwater Ecosystems in the Himalayas (CCIFEH) Programme is a joint initiative of WWF-India and WWF Nepal, funded by WWF-The Netherlands.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2007
WWF-India
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Ecosystems, Wetlands, Sundarbans, Lakes, Mangroves, Climate Change, Biodiversity, India, Ladakh
India

 Deep waters

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Publication Date: 
14/05/2007
Arnab Pratim Dutta, Sujit Kumar Singh
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Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Mangroves, Coastal Development, Coastal Erosion, Beaches, Sethusamudram Project, Ports, Marine Fisherfolk, Conflicts, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), India, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu
Industry

 Harbouring doubts


Publication Date: 
14/05/2007
Arnab Pratim Dutta, Sujit Kumar Singh
Down to Earth
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Environment, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Land Acquisition, Mangroves, Coastal Erosion, Beaches, Ports, Displacement, Marine Fisherfolk, Conflicts, Pondicherry, Corruption, Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, Air Pollution
India

 South Asia

Fishermen shot Two people were shot dead and two others drowned in the Indian Ocean when the Sri Lankan Navy opened fire at Indian fishermen on March 29. According to the Tamil Nadu Fisheries

Publication Date: 
29/04/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Sundarbans, Mangroves, Forest Fires, Marine Fisherfolk, Sri Lanka, India, Kanniyakumari, West Bengal
Industry

 Useful mangorves

Indira Hiriway of the Centre for Development Alternatives in Ahmedabad has recently produced a working paper on the valuation of mangroves in Gujarat.

Publication Date: 
30/03/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Nutrition, Mangroves, Kyoto Protocol, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Drugs, AIDS, Gujarat
India

 Cochin needs to preserve its green lungs

Documentary

Publication Date: 
27/02/2007
S V Suresh Babu
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Mangroves, Birds, Migratory Species, Protected Area Conservation, Sanctuaries, Cinema, India, Kerala, Kochi
Industry

 Way out

So, is there any way the islands can be saved while maintaining the ecological balance of this unique mangrove system?

Publication Date: 
14/01/2007
Down to Earth
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Islands, Mangroves, Habitat
Climate Change

 Rising sea levels and tidal erosion eating up Sunderbans

Rising sea levels are real. A trip to the Sunderbans, in the Bay of Bengal, shows how devastating it can be in tandem with insidious tidal erosion. One inhabited island has gone under and 7,000 people displaced in the past 30 years. This is just the tip o

Publication Date: 
14/01/2007
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Land Use, Soil Erosion, Sundarbans, Islands, Mangroves, Bay Of Bengal, Climate Change, Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Displacement, Landless, Rehabilitation, India, West Bengal, Statistics
India

 Indus delta celebrates rains

ON September 22, around 50,000 people gathered at Kharo Chaan, 150 km southeast of Karachi in Pakistan, for quite an unprecedented festival

Publication Date: 
14/01/2007
Shahid Husain
Down to Earth
Tags:
Freshwater Ecosystems, Indus, Mangroves, Arabian Sea, Dams, Sedimentation, Riverine Ecology, Monsoons, Floods, Life Science, Pakistan, Rainfall
Natural Disasters

Mangrove regeneration suffers

Publication Date: 
06/01/2007
Tags:
Mangroves

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