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All posts tagged "Sundarbans"
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357National#Cyclone Yaas : Odisha, West Bengal Brace To Face The Fury, Unlike Amphan Says IMD
Even as India’s s western coast battles the aftermath of Cyclone Tauktae that ravaged Gujarat and Maharashtra, another cyclonic storm, Cyclone Yaas,...
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714Environment
National Green Tribunal admits case on recurring fly-ash barge capsizing incidents on the Indo- Bangladesh Protocol Route
An NGT Bench consisting of Justice S.P. Wangdi and Expert Member Dr. Nagin Nanda, has admitted a case filed by local traditional...
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432Environment
Coping With Storm Surges In The Sundarbans
Villages located near rivers, creeks and low-lying areas of the Sundarbans – the world’s largest mangrove forest that straddles Bangladesh and India...
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1.4KImpact
Saline Land Will Drive People Out Of Sundarbans
Increased soil salinity due to climate change-induced rises in sea levels is likely to force hundreds of thousands of coastal residents to...
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447Opinion
How To Strengthen Cooperation For A Water Secure South Asia
South Asia is witnessing unprecedented water challenges and risks. The impacts are wide-spread and intense. From receding glaciers in the Himalayas to...
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470Environment
Eight Countries Come Together To Protect Bay Of Bengal
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has just approved a grant of USD 15 million for the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem...
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373Environment
Rapid Industrialisation Poses Pollution Risk To The Sundarbans
Mongla port is a hive of activity. Several oceangoing vessels are anchored in the harbour and there is a steady bustle of...
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410Environment
Migration Always Good? There’s No Straight Answer
By Rituparna Hajra and Tuhin Ghosh In India, 55% of male migrants send remittances to support households have left behind. Does that...
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368Environment
Sinking Sundarbans Islands Underline Climate Crisis
By Soumya Sarkar Kalyani Mandal has gone way past hope. Living in Dhoblat Shibpur, a coastal village on Sagar Island in the...
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643Environment
Water-based Transport: Perils and Possibilities
Practical and policy difficulties have led to the limited growth of inland waterway transport in India over the past decade, but transport...
![Villagers in the Sundarbans are being displaced by coastal erosion, high soil salinity and increasingly violent cyclones [image by: Soumya Sarkar]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Sundarbans-storm-e1549092492985.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![Villagers in the Sundarbans are being displaced by coastal erosion, high soil salinity and increasingly violent cyclones [image by: Soumya Sarkar]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Sundarbans-storm-e1549092492985.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
![As tidal river Durgaduani tears into their earthen embankments with every high tide, islanders living deep inside the Indian Sundarbans desperately try to save farms and homes [image by: Manipadma Jena]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ICD-2-123187-e1542095453685.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![As tidal river Durgaduani tears into their earthen embankments with every high tide, islanders living deep inside the Indian Sundarbans desperately try to save farms and homes [image by: Manipadma Jena]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ICD-2-123187-e1542095453685.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
![Brahmaputra [Image by: Deep Goswami]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Brahmaputra-Deep-Goswami-1-1020x679-e1538563858121.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![Brahmaputra [Image by: Deep Goswami]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Brahmaputra-Deep-Goswami-1-1020x679-e1538563858121.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
![The rejuvenated Mongla port is expanding very rapidly [image by: Soumya Sarkar]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Mongla01-1020x765-e1522221929300.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![The rejuvenated Mongla port is expanding very rapidly [image by: Soumya Sarkar]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Mongla01-1020x765-e1522221929300.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
![As agricultural productivity flounders in the Sundarbans, unskilled labour is all the residents have to sell [image by: Mike Prince]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Unloading-bricks-Mike-Prince-1020x612-e1520664048501.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![As agricultural productivity flounders in the Sundarbans, unskilled labour is all the residents have to sell [image by: Mike Prince]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Unloading-bricks-Mike-Prince-1020x612-e1520664048501.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
![Coastal erosion, high soil salinity and increasingly violent cyclones have forced the young out of their homes in the Sundarbans, living behind only the old people, children and women [image by: Soumya Sarkar]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Sundarbans2-1020x663-e1518601051956.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![Coastal erosion, high soil salinity and increasingly violent cyclones have forced the young out of their homes in the Sundarbans, living behind only the old people, children and women [image by: Soumya Sarkar]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Sundarbans2-1020x663-e1518601051956.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
