Climate security in the Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal (BoB) region is emerging as an important focal point for climate security risks. This is largely due to a multi-layered interplay of geopolitical, geostrategic, and climate-related regional
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Observed changes in water mass properties in the Indian Sundarbans (northwestern Bay of Bengal) during 1980-2007
We present evidence that the Indian Sundarbans is experiencing the effects of climate change over the last three decades. Observations of selected variables, such as the surface water temperature, salinity, pH, dissolved oxygen, and transparency show significant long-term variation over a period of 27 years (1980
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The aberrant behaviour of the Indian monsoon in June 2009
After an early onset over Kerala on 23 May 2009, further advance of the monsoon over the Indian region was delayed by about two weeks with the monsoon restricted to the west coast and southern peninsula until 24 June. This resulted in a massive deficit in the all-India rainfall of 54% of the long term average for this period.
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Blueprint ready for erosion-hit villages
KENDRAPARA: The State Government has prepared a blueprint to shift 3,000 people from the seaside villages of Satabhaya and Kanhupur under Satabhaya gram panchayat in Rajnagar block. The sea has been eroding vast tracts of land in these villages.
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Oil spill in troubled waters
Oil spill in the Bay of Bengal spells doomsday for breeding of Ridley turtles The worst fears of environmentalists appear to have come true with reports of an oil leak from MV Black Rose, the Mongolian ship that sank off Paradeep coast in Orissa on the 9th of September. The ship was carrying about 926 tonnes (926,000 litres) of furnace oil.
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Oil-polluted sea washes away dead fish
RABINDRA NATH CHOUDHURY and AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO BHUBANESWAR/PARADIP The worst fear appears to have come true. Oil spillage has begun from Black Rose, the cargo ship that sank on September 9 off the Bay of Bengal coast, nearly seven km away from Orissa's Paradip port. The oil leakage threatens to severely damage the local marine resources and ecology.
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Aila damage blamed for dam breaches after rains
Twenty-four hours of incessant rain, caused by a low in the Bay of Bengal, has left hundreds of thousands marooned as some 65 villages in Khulna and Barguna districts inundated, WDB officials said on Saturday, blaming delayed or poor repairs to damaged flood barriers after Cyclone Aila hit the southwest region in May.
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Project to study climate change
SOUDHRITI BHABANI At least 220 Indian scientists and 127 research organisations are joining hands for a massive study to monitor climate change in different parts of the country. Climate change in India has led to a rise in sea levels while storm surges in coastal areas have also become a major concern for environmental authorities.
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A special report on "Aila", the cyclone that struck on May 25. Now, with 400 km-long embankment breached, people of Sunderbans live with threat of a high tide causing further damage. It calls for a long-term policy on behalf of the islanders for saving the Sunderbans. See Also Report: Boiling point - containing the 'spill over' of climate change
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Whats fanning heat waves
Archita Bhatta Scientists pore over data to explain the unusual weather They can