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Court digest: Major environment hearings in March

While every week, Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, high courts and National Green Tribunal, here …

A violent forest

Reconciling conservation and livelihoods in Sundarban mangroves

Indus delta celebrates rains

Backdoor democracy

Central directives on coastal zones could be used to circumvent rules

Shrimp farms vs mangroves

Manning the groves

Studies conducted on the Vietnamese coast reveal that mangroves are among the best defences one could put up against the ravages of the sea

Groovy benefits

Mangroves contribute generously to oceanic carbon

Propagate and protect halophytes

It is high time that India’s governments make serious efforts to identify, propagate and protect these plants which establish mangroves, …

Goa's disappearing khazan farms dying a slow death

Ready to taxi

Push for sand mining

New Maharashtra policy ignores resident’s concerns, law

Dhamra port on mangrove land

Odisha government insists port is on wasteland

Tsunami 2004: scientists move closer to understanding triggers for tsunamis

There are patterns and rules governing even the greatest earthquakes and tsunamis, helping scientists to anticipate them

Virgin islands In peril

Tourism planned in Sri Lanka’s islands threatens their fragile ecosystem and the lives of people there

Near ready for take-off

Environment ministry panel clears Navi Mumbai airport; hotel and golf course put on hold

Mumbai suburbs gets a landfill site for hazardous waste

Kanjumarg will aggravate Mumbai's waste crisis

Mangroves on public land in Maharashtra will be reserved forests

Officials justify the move saying high court order of 2005 has done little to stop destruction of mangroves; but conservationists are critical

Mangroves' rescue act

Scientists stress that conserving mangroves will provide an important buffer to save coastal regions from the ravages of sea level rise due to …

Mangroves destruction violates fundamental rights of citizens: Bombay HC

The court has ordered complete ban on construction activity on mangrove land

A decade after tsunami, people still await rehabilitation

Tamil Nadu government claims affected people rehabilitated, ground reality different

Treeless forest

How shrimp cultivation turned a mangrove forest into a saline desert

Mithi is a river, not real estate

Jagdish Gandhi wears many hats. A historian writing a book on Mumbai’s colonial past, he was among those responsible for restoring the …

Scientists gather in Greece to brainstorm ways to save world’s oceans

Marine life and mangroves face threat from plastic

Bombay HC halts work at Mulund-Thane SEZ

Asks project proponent to immediately stop dumping solid waste to reclaim land