Amphan aftermath: Sundarbans villagers try to pick up pieces

Theft at relief centres, lack of toilets add to villagers’ woes five days after cyclone Amphan struck Bengal

'All these sites have multiple stresses affecting them. Climate change only adds to that'

Adam Markham, Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Deputy Director for Climate and Energy and lead author of UNESCO’s recent report on World …

Cyclone Amphan: Kolkata faces fiercest storm in decades

Amphan was expected to pass through the city before moving on to Bangladesh

Futile deadlines: Afforestation drive in 5 states along Ganga is over with just 22% of target being met

Experts have questioned as to whether the Ganga catchment area is really available for afforestation

Delta blues

Shrimp does not pay

Adivasi & forest communities in Bengal pledge to protect their environmental & cultural identities

Activists from the Dooars to the Sundarbans call for implementation of FRA in its true spirit, among other demands  

Climate is changing, and the Sundarban residents can feel it

The Sundarban delta region in the Bay of Bengal, with 10,000 square kilometres of estuarine mangrove forest and 102 islands, is the world's …

Relief stalled

Paper tigers abound in Sunderbans

Officials inflated tiger population to unrealistic figures  

Solar power lights up Sundarbans island

Six solar micro-grids cater to about 600 families in Satjelia island  

A violent forest

Reconciling conservation and livelihoods in Sundarban mangroves

Protests over nuclear land in West Bengal

First-ever tidal plant in Sunderbans in West Bengal

Sunderbansto have country's first tidal power plant

Solar units beyond people's reach in Sunderbans

COVID-19, bad weather affect livelihoods in Bengal's Sundarbans

Inhabitants forced to enter forest areas that are home to man-eaters, other wild animals

Fancy wall for Sundarbans

Government starts building massive embankments on the fragile delta using untested technology. Experts say the project benefits contractors, …

Aila prompts exodus

Cyclone in Bangladesh

COVID-19 pulls fishermen back to Bengal, Amphan forces them to reconsider

Several fishermen in West Bengal have begun weighing options to go back to fishing harbours in other states where they worked

Shudder islands

Harsh environment, government apathy are literally driving Sundarbans inhabitants mad

Panel submits draft of West Bengal land use policy

Recommends ban on government land acquisition for industrial use

Sunderbans polluted

Tribals beaten up by TMC workers in Sundarbans

People fear losing their land to local goons in the climate change hot spot

The secret garden

Want to know about a lost variety of rice or a cure to asthma? Answers lie in the notebooks of schoolchildren and women of the Sundarbans and …