A study reveals plastic pollution in the Sundarbans ecosystem. Plastic is found in fishing cat scat, soil, water and prey. The pollution includes polyethylene and polypropylene. Experts blame tourism ...

The Forest Department has banned travel to the Sundarbans and fishing from all its rivers and canals for the next three months, starting tomorrow. The decision was made to allow the safe breeding of ...

A recent study reveals the alarming presence of plastic in fishing cat scat samples within the Indian Sundarbans, highlighting the pollutant's deep penetration into the fragile ecosystem. The ...

The Bay of Bengal has turned turbulent due to a low-pressure system, forcing fishing trawlers to return from the deep sea to safer coastal areas, including the Sundarbans. Ilish fishing has remained ...

Fishing has been suspended in the Bay of Bengal since April 15 for a 58-day conservation period, set to end on June 11. Before that period concluded, authorities imposed a separate three-month ban on ...

The region’s largely Dalit and Adivasi populations survive from day to day as the changing weather leaves no part of life ...

For most of history, tigers have been dreaded, mythical beasts — vicious killers that deserved no sympathy. But the tables have turned after centuries of hunting and poaching, and the world's tiger ...

A 37-year-old homemaker from the Sundarbans displayed remarkable courage on Saturday by fighting off a crocodile for 30 minutes before villagers rescued her from the jaws of the reptile. Around 6am, ...

JHARKHALI, India — Shibani Mistry's husband went crab fishing for extra income four years ago — only to die from a regrettably familiar cause on this West Bengali island: a tiger attack. "We had very ...