Mangrove forests protect tropical coasts from storms, store large amounts of carbon and provide vital habitats for plants and animals, serving, for example, as nurseries for fish and crabs. They also ...

Mangrove forests protect tropical coasts from storms, store large amounts of carbon and provide vital habitats for plants and animals, serving for example as nurseries for fish and crabs. They also ...

The dense waterways of the Sundarbans, once declared free of pirates, are again echoing with fear.Nearly 20 armed gangs have resurfaced across the world’s largest ...

Though seafood is a prevalent protein source in Bangladesh, some fishes, like stingrays and sharks, never appealed to most of the population here, barring a few coastal Indigenous groups. However, the ...

Kolkata lawyer Mantu Hait built a pioneering dragonfly pond in the Sundarbans, restoring wetlands, boosting biodiversity and ...

Crab collection has resumed in Satkhira Range of the Sundarbans after a two-month closure imposed to protect breeding and ...

In India’s fragile delta, climate change is compounding the hardships of “tiger widows” — women whose husbands were killed by Royal Bengal tigers — as rising seas, shrinking habitats and economic ...

In the Sundarbans where Sundari trees have become increasingly scarce, Alibanda is drawing attention for its remarkable concentration of the iconic mangrove species. Located along the Bhola River in ...

Highlighting the country’s growing tiger population, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in December 2024 expressed optimism that the trend would continue in the future. Since then, Union environment, fo ...

In Amitav Ghosh’s recent novel, the local is sacrificed at the altar of the global, with Sundarban and Bengali fish mercilessly made to perform on the international stage.

Observing that adhoc measures adopted to prevent coastal erosion of the Sundarbans, particularly the fast eroding Ghoramara island, will not yield fruitful results in the long run, the National Green ...