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UPSC Essentials | Mains answer practice — GS 1 : Questions on marine heatwaves, deep-focus earthquakes and more (Week 89 and 90)
February 27, 2025 10:32 am
Are you preparing for CSE 2025? Here are questions from GS paper 1 for this week with essential points as the fodder for your answers. Do not miss points to ponder and answer in the comment box below.
Mangroves: Ecology, economy, and a boat ride in Pichavaram
August 24, 2023 11:19 am
From mitigating global warming to working as natural coast guards, mangroves provide several environmental and ecological benefits. In India, several schemes are in place to protect these vulnerable ecosystems.
Study finds 21 Gobioid fish species in mangrove and estuarine areas of Maharashtra
October 09, 2022 6:50 pm
The study was commissioned by the Maharashtra Forest Department’s Mangrove Foundation and conducted by the Bombay Natural History Society
The mystery of Maldives’ dying mangroves and India’s role in the quest to save them
February 11, 2022 6:08 pm
Alarmed by the fast-declining health of its crucial mangroves, the Maldives is desperately trying to save them, particularly one species which holds historical and cultural significance to its people. Helping the archipelagic nation is a team of scientists from India’s Cochin University of Science & Technology (CUSAT).
Malaysia's mangrove-planting fishermen stumble at nature finance hurdle
January 24, 2022 6:23 pm
Nature protection remains under-funded worldwide, with the UN urging a four-fold increase in annual investment to $536 billion by 2050.
What happens if all mangroves are destroyed? A plant scientist explains
August 05, 2021 11:20 am
Besides increasing the vulnerability of the coastal communities, the decline of mangroves will also threaten the other organismal diversity that it supports.
Tigers stalk as storms, poverty force Indians deep into mangrove forests
January 15, 2021 10:27 am
India's Sundarbans is a mangrove area bordering Bangladesh. As farmland shrinks, some risk fishing in dangerous areas. Number of reported fatal tiger maulings jumps in 2020 COVID lockdown meant local migrant workers were stuck.
Mangrove Cell’s boat rides through flamingo sanctuary to boost employment opportunities
January 26, 2018 5:55 am
Set to begin from February 1, tourists can take off from the Coastal and Marine Biodiversity Centre (CMBC) in Airoli.
Apiculture training for villagers soon to conserve mangrove forests
May 27, 2014 5:46 pm
The best quality honey is produced from Aegialitis rotundifolia and Cynometra ramiflora, according to the mangrove cell.
To push conservation,mangrove forests to get crablets from Tamil Nadu
November 16, 2013 12:32 am
Nearly 2,000 crablets,captive-bred in Tamil Nadu,will soon make their way into the mangrove forests in Thane and Navi Mumbai.
MANGROVE FORESTS PHOTOS
A battle for survival: Sunderban residents hit by water crisis
April 13, 2019 11:07 am
Surrounded by salty waters on all sides, people living in the inhabited islands of the world's largest mangrove forest, getting access to clean drinking water is extremely exhausting.
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