Gaping chasms

A proposed bridge to link Vypeen island with the mainland spurs controversies

Socotra archipelago: Why the Emiratis have set their sights on the Arab world’s Garden of Eden

Experts estimate tHAT 37% of its plant species, 90% reptiles and 95% land snails exist nowhere else in the world

Why are polar bears migrating to Russia from Alaska?

Sea ice, on which polar bears rely for hunting, have been on the decline

The Andamans up for grabs

Buffer for Jarawas

Private tourism to be banned

How the invasion of a tiny insect is altering Antarctica’s soil & its ecosystem

The other fear is that it can spread through other islands as it can survive in water

Underwater threat

Unbridled avarice

Patent over AIDS drug-yielding tree

Lakshwadeep islands to be connected by Ham radio

ARGENTINA

Penguin paradise and geological freak: Why Macquarie Island deserves a bigger marine park

The island is a subantarctic environment crucial for seabirds marine mammals

‘No govt support’, villagers of Majuli river island build bamboo embankment to prevent erosion

The flood prevention measures by the state of inferior quality 

Fishy goings-on

Victims of modernisation

Tribal communities of Andaman and Nicobar Islands face extinction

Briefs

No apology has been offered for the system of indenture: Bhaswati Mukherjee

Former Ambassador speaks to Down To Earth on her latest book on the system of indenture, that led to 1.5 million Indians going to far-off lands

Collapse of Canada’s last remaining ice shelf raises global warming fears

The Milne ice shelf lost more than 40 per cent of its ice over two days end of July

World biodiversity day this year focuses on islands

In the last 500 years around 80 per cent of vertebrate extinctions have been on islands

By 2100, heat waves in South Asia could be too deadly to survive: study

India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are likely to be the most severely hit

Respect Jarawa buffer zone: SC to Andamans administration

Two tourist companies boycott Jarawa tourism

Fruits of industry

How industry can help in environment protection

Kelp forests losing unique traits due to climate change, says study

Kelp populations at equatorward-range edges particularly vulnerable to climate change

To protect or to empower?

Parliamentary standing committee reiterates its demand to bring Jarawas into mainstream

Climate-impacted Sagar island witnesses 10 million pilgrims take holy baths in Ganga Sagar

Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee demands ‘national fair’ status; administration trying to reduce fair’s green footprint