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A single-celled organism threatens the vast Arabian sea and the millions that depend on it

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Jan 2021
Marine debris entangled in branching coral in the waters of the Gulf of Mannar. Photo courtesy SDMRI.

Ghosts of the gulf: Marine debris a threat to corals in the Gulf of Mannar

Aathira Perinchery 18 Jan 2021

Biodiversity threats from ghost fishing gear in the Ganga

Sahana Ghosh 18 Dec 2020

Fly ash in India: A free movement of toxicity to Bangladesh

Namrata Acharya 23 Oct 2020
Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) made it to of the “100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species”.

[Commentary] Tilapia: How an invasive fish came to dominate our ecology, food and psyche

Aaron Savio Lobo 15 Oct 2020

Bodh fish, the ‘shark of Bastar,’ threatened by a proposed hydropower project

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 9 Oct 2020

Your Environment This Week: Wild campuses, e-waste disposal, Onam food for thought

Team Mongabay 28 Aug 2020
Sundarban fishing in river 2 - photo Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

With depleting fish catch, Sundarbans fishers migrate to other coastal states

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 28 Aug 2020

West Bengal fishermen observe fewer shrimp and fish deaths by pollution this year

Namrata Acharya 20 Aug 2020

Low fish catch along India’s western coast hints at impacts of climate change

Kapil Kajal 3 Aug 2020

Draft National Fisheries Policy seeks big growth but ignores fishers

Supriya Vohra 21 Jul 2020

How Mumbai’s fishers adapted in the lockdown, kept their sales alive

Himanshu Nitnaware 8 Jun 2020

Study suggests tuna gillnet fisheries deadly for dolphins, but evidence unconvincing

Bhanu Sridharan 11 May 2020

El Niño-Southern Oscillation can affect tuna fish in the Indian Ocean, says FAO report

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 24 Apr 2020

Fishers try to stay afloat amid lockdown

Supriya Vohra 10 Apr 2020

Ganjam fisherwomen unite to get back fish trade from monopolistic traders

Priya Ranjan Sahu 2 Apr 2020

Kerala’s fishing beaches littered with large amounts of fishing debris

Neha Jain 3 Mar 2020

Marine subsidies are a mess, say small scale fishers of southern Karnataka

Supriya Vohra 2 Mar 2020

“There is no fish in the ocean”: Declining catch worries fishers in southern Karnataka

Supriya Vohra 18 Feb 2020

Artificial reefs breathe new life for Tamil Nadu’s fishing communities

Mahima Jain 11 Feb 2020