Study highlights the vital role of coastal wetlands in building land with rising seas, protecting their substantial carbon stores New ...

A hybrid approach, combining breakwater construction with artificial reefs, is seen as a viable solution to address coastal ...

The Project Coordination Office of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) has expressed determination to complete a significant number of its projects in 2025. Prof. Nenibarini Zabbey, ...

Experts are also fighting to have non-mangrove multilevel bio-shields developed in vulnerable districts. “Trees such as Indian Beech, Oil Nut, Screw Pine and Mahua can grow in sandy soil ...

stabilize soil with their roots and help improve water quality by filtering and trapping sediments. “That’s where the concern ...

The mangroves act as a natural barrier ... provide the ocean with large volumes of nutrients, stabilize soil with their roots and help improve water quality by filtering and trapping sediments.

They store carbon from the atmosphere and act as a buffer from tropical storms and coastal erosion, so mangroves are crucial to building climate resilience. More than 1 million hectares (ha ...

The country has also lost old-growth forest and mangrove cover and saw a decline in forest cover across the Western Ghats. The net rise in forest cover takes the area under forest cover to 7,15,342.61 ...

The silt forms the bed that hinders sea encroachment along its shoreline and also provides fertile soil to grow and sustain the mangrove forests. The mangroves are a breeding ground for several ...

“Our community-led restoration of 560 hectares of oil-degraded mangroves is now 75 per cent complete. Shoreline cleanup has reached a 20 per cent completion rate, and soil and groundwater ...