The Bay of Bengal, notes historian Sunil Amrith, is an "expanse of tropical water: still and blue in the calm of January winter, or raging and turbid at the peak of the summer rains". The largest ...

Like many on the Bay of Bengal coast in India and Bangladesh ... But after years of abuse from man and nature, the mangroves seem to be nearing their limits. Illicit logging, mostly for building ...

How are the Sundarbans tackling natural and manmade threats, and can they keep doing this? How did the study arrive at its results? What does the study tell us about the functioning of mangroves?

“The temperature of the surface of the Bay of Bengal is increasing by 0.5 degree Celsius every decade because of climate ... “The Sunderbans have lost about 50sqkm of land and 110sqkm of mangrove area ...

"It is alleged that the number of mangrove and halophyte patches has ... "severe" and the Meghadri Gedda area connected with the Bay of Bengal near Visakhapatnam harbour "exemplifying" the decline.

KOLKATA: The third edition of the Sundarban Bird Festival witnessed an impressive increase in migratory bird sightings, with ...

India has  85 Ramsar Sites, recognised for their ecological significance and contributions to biodiversity conservation. Here ...

The gravity of pollution caused by plastics is more than meets the eye. Wild animals often end up eating these plastics, Prof Abdullah Harun Chowdhury says ...

The whale was finally released into the Bay of Bengal early Friday morning, marking only the fourth sighting of this species in Bengal. KOLKATA: The 16-foot Bryde's whale, only the fourth sighting ...

The Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, stretches across the border between India and Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal. It is home to endangered tigers, dolphins, and 300 species of birds.