Several areas of the Sunderbans Delta, particularly in the Namkhana block of South 24-Parganas district, have been submerged because of heavy rainfall triggered by a low-pressure system over the Bay ...

The Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, and home to the Royal Bengal Tiger, is gradually losing its very dense tree cover, data released by the Forest Survey of India on Thursday has ...

A tiger that mauled a forest department staffer after straying out of West Bengal’s Sunderban forest has been captured and released back into the wild, officials said on Tuesday. The tiger rescue team ...

State irrigation department has identified at least 65 vulnerable earthen dykes in the Sunderbans delta, spanning North and South 24-Parganas districts, ahead of the anticipated landfall of cyclone ...

KOLKATA: After the massive destruction of the mangroves in Sundarbans by the two cyclones in 2020 and 2021, combined with the Covid pandemic, flowers bloomed again in the jungles resulting in a record ...

NEW DELHI: Tajiuddin Mintu (50), a Basanti Island-based forest conservation volunteer, was jubilant when Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Budget 2023-24 announced a special project for ...

We exchanged the bus for a boat to continue with our onward journey into the heartlands of the Sunderbans National Park but were surprised to find that we were not far from human habitations. Our ...

There are places which resist definition. They do not yield their secrets easily, nor can they be made to turn on a pithy phrase or a charming paragraph. Writing about them often feels like an ...