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Tamil Nadu reservoirs swell as heavy rainfall lash Western Ghats
Tenkasi district bordering the Western Ghats recorded incessant rainfall this year after the onset of southwest monsoon.
Updated on Jul 25, 2021 04:28 PM IST
hindustantimes.com | Edited by Avik Roy, New Delhi
Pune cops carry injured woman on makeshift stretcher to hospital 4 km away
The woman is now recuperating at a government hospital in Pune and is reported to be in a stable condition, officials said on Thursday.
Published on Jun 03, 2021 06:28 PM IST
PTI |
Forest clearance given to contentious Goa railway project through Western Ghats
- The forest clearance is the latest in a long line of clearances that have been granted for the project
Published on Feb 28, 2021 10:26 AM IST
Gerard de Souza
Conservation outlook of Western Ghats grim, says new IUCN report
The IUCN World Heritage Outlook 3, published last week, builds on previous reports from 2014 and 2017 to track whether the conservation of the worlds 252 natural world heritage sites is sufficient to protect them in the long term.
Updated on Dec 06, 2020 05:47 PM IST
Kochi | Press Trust of India | Posted by Srivatsan K C
‘Kerala hasn’t learnt’: Ecologists react to tunnel project in Western Ghats
Kerala CM has said that this project will not be allowed to be stalled due to environmental concerns.
Updated on Oct 09, 2020 04:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | Ramesh Babu | Edited by Abhinav Sahay
Ecologists ask Javadekar to stop rail line across Western Ghats
The SBWL approval was granted after the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL), under the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), started reviewing the rail project and asked about the reasons behind the inordinate delay in implementing it, documents suggest.
Updated on Jul 09, 2020 09:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Jayashree Nandi
Girl from Nilgiri leads petition to ‘protect’ Western Ghats, Centre, states served notice
The petition says 50 million people are directly dependent on the Western Ghats and its ecology, and another 200 million are indirectly dependent.
Updated on Jun 19, 2020 12:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Panaji | Gerard de Souza | Edited by Abhinav Sahay
Agumbe is a wonderland in the Western Ghats
Sign up as a volunteer with the ARRS’s king cobra research programme for the ultimate immersive experience through the Western Ghats.
Updated on Feb 05, 2020 01:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Natasha Rego
Water management: Not just the government’s job
The decision to focus on building community-managed decentralised water supply systems in rural areas is a welcome move
Updated on Jan 05, 2020 07:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | KumKum Dasgupta
Western Ghats stay vulnerable to natural disasters: Experts
A book titled Observed Climate Variability and Change over the Indian Region (2017) is based on the data from 9,294 weather stations from 1901-2010 and shows how climate change is impacting the country.
Updated on Aug 26, 2019 01:00 AM IST
Kavalappara, Kerala | Jayashree Nandi
Climate change takes a toll on Western Ghats
In Puthumala in Wayanad, another hamlet has been wiped out as a hillside has almost melted away, bringing down everything in its path: homes, people, tea estates.
Updated on Aug 23, 2019 07:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Kavalappara, Mallapuram | Jayashree Nandi
Found: New frog in old hot spot
A thumbnail-sized star-speckled frog species with several features resembling frogs found in South America and Central Africa discovered in the Western Ghats in Wayanad, Kerala, is a unique addition to a series of frog species unearthed in the biodiversity hot spot.
Published on Mar 13, 2019 05:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi/Mumbai | Anonna Dutt and Snehal Fernandes
No special tag for Maharashtra’s tiger corridor, danger of mining lurks around
The Union environment ministry, in a draft notification released on October 3, proposed the declaration of 56,825 sqkm or 37% of the Western Ghats as ESA, but left out the 38kmx10km forests of Dodamarg-Sawantwadi belt in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district in the classification
Updated on Oct 22, 2018 04:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Badri Chatterjee, Mumbai
Karnataka rejects Centre’s plan to declare western ghats eco-sensitive area
The declaration of Western Ghats as eco-sensitive area has assumed significance because of the massive Kerala floods in July.
Published on Sep 22, 2018 07:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Jayashree Nandi
Killer fungal infection detected in 2 endangered amphibians in Western Ghats
Fungal pathogen in large concentration can cause chytridiomycosis, a skin disease that can turn lethal for the amphibians
Updated on Jun 14, 2018 11:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Fernandes, Mumbai
Deforestation in Western Ghats reducing rain in Tamil Nadu, other southern states: Study
The study ‘Moisture supply from the Western Ghats to water deficit east coast of India’ was published in Geophysical Research Letters journal on Friday
Updated on May 05, 2018 01:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Snehal Fernandes, Mumbai
Wake up call: Indian forests, mangroves turning brown from green
55,02,860 hectare of forests which includes core forests have turned brown
Published on Apr 05, 2018 09:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Fernandes, Mumbai