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Up to 15% of Sundarbans Mangroves Losing Resilience to Cyclones, Climate Change and Human Pressure, Study Finds

Ravi Singh5 days ago04 mins

The Sundarbans, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site spanning India and Bangladesh, is seeing a marked decline in its ability to recover from environmental stress like climate driven and anthropogenic disturbances, a new study has found. Researchers estimate that around 10-15 per cent of the forest, roughly 610 to…

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Half of Jammu and Kashmir’s Lakes Have Vanished Since 1967, CAG Warns of Deepening Ecological Crisis

Ravi Singh6 days ago03 mins

Nearly half of Jammu and Kashmir’s lakes have disappeared over the past decades, according to a new audit by India’s Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). The report, which examined lake management between 2017-18 and 2021-22, found that out of 697 lakes recorded in 1967, 315 have vanished. These covered an area of 1,537.07…