Rahi Gaikwad

Mumbai: Mangroves near the Elephanta Island in the Mumbai harbour and those near Vashi in Navi Mumbai were found to be affected on Wednesday, after merchant vessel MSC Chitra collided with MV Khalijia-III, leading to a massive oil spill in the Arabian Sea off Mumbai. There is, however, no estimate of the scale of the damage.

Kavitha Iyer

Saturday

Vinaya Deshpande

Mumbai: The effect of the oil leak from MSC Chitra may not be as dramatic as hordes of blackened dead fish being washed off the shore or some oil-slick-ridden duckling being spotted somewhere. But, according to Deepak Apte, Assistant Director, Bombay Natural History Society, the process of slow poisoning has begun.

The collision of two large ships off the Mumbai coast and the resulting oil spill has come as a test of India's preparedness to handle shipping disasters. Any significant shipping accident has a serious environmental fallout, because oil or other hazardous cargo is discharged into the sea.

MUMBAI: The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (Neeri) and National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) will conduct an extensive research to study the impact of the oil spill on the marine eco system.

MUMBAI: In wake of the collision between two ships and the subsequent oil spill off the coast here, BMC has started conducting random checks of seafood items in civic markets to ensure they are hygienic and contamination-free.

Vinaya Deshpande

Mumbai: Four days after the oil spill from MSC Chitra, an exact assessment of the impact on marine life cannot be done for lack of systematic data on the biodiversity off the Mumbai coast. Monsoon adds to the existing woes.