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Mangrove Plantation in Indian Sundarbans: Development of Coastal Livelihood and Averting Climate Change

 Opinion 

Over the last few decades, Sundarbans ecoregions of India became devastating and reduced almost 25% due to soil erosion caused by rising sea level and natural calamities such as cyclone Aila (2009), Amphan (2020) and Yaas (2021). The rising sea level causes the sinking of several islands under water. To save the coastal vegetation, agricultural lands and associated inhabitants, Nature Environment and Wildlife Society (NEWS) involves local villagers for replantation of mangroves. As we know, mangroves are the most efficient natural barriers to prevent flooding due to their morphological adaptations. Surprisingly they form an association with other living groups including algae, fungi and bacteria [1-2] (Figure 1D). Hence newly planted mangrove vegetation can be the best place for safeguarding crustaceans, fishes and molluscs (Figure 1A-C). Most of the marine food chain or food web depends on fully grown mangrove vegetation. The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) has already declared Sundarbans in “The Red List of Ecosystems”. The Red list highlighted the conservation from species to ecosystem level [3].

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Facing disastrous floods, they turned to mangrove trees for protection

Facing disastrous floods, they turned to mangrove trees for protection

Good News Notes: “As sea levels rise, eroding embankments and pushing water closer to their doorsteps, the residents of the hundreds of villages in the Sundarbans — an immense network of rivers, tidal flats, small islands and vast mangrove forests straddling India and Bangladesh — have found their lives and livelihoods at risk. In the absence of much government support, women like Aparna Dhara,…

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Explained: Aila, Amphan, Asani: What's in a cyclone's name?

Explained: Aila, Amphan, Asani: What’s in a cyclone’s name?

Explained: Aila, Amphan, Asani: What’s in a cyclone’s name? Bhubaneswar, May 8: Every year, as a cyclone looms over a region, its name becomes a cause of intrigue for many, who wonder why and how is the storm christened. With Cyclone Asani — a name given by Sri Lanka that Bhubaneswar, May 8: Every year, as a cyclone looms over a region, its name becomes a cause of intrigue for many, who wonder…

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‘ऐला’ से ज्यादा विनाशकारी तूफान है ‘अम्फान’: संयुक्त राष्ट्र न्यूयॉर्क संयुक्त राष्ट्र ने कहा कि पश्चिम बंगाल में तबाही मचाने वाले चक्��वात अम्फान को अब 2009 में दक्षिणी बांग्लादेश तथा पूर्वी भारत में आए चक्रवात 'ऐला' से कहीं अधिक विनाशकारी माना जा रहा है। चक्रवात अम्फान से पश्चिम बंगाल में 77 लोगों की मौत हो गई और हजारों लोग बेघर हो गए। संयुक्त राष्ट्र ने एक समाचार रिपोर्ट में कहा, 'भारत में संयुक्त राष्ट्र की कंट्री टीम ने बताया कि कोलकाता के आसपास व्यापक पैमाने पर नुकसान पहुंचाने वाले चक्रवात अम्फान को चक्रवात ऐला से कहीं अधिक विनाशकारी माना जा रहा है जिसने मई 2009 में क्षेत्र में तबाही मचाई थी।'

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kolkata news News : প্রবল দুর্যোগ, বুধবার কেউ বাড়ি থেকে বেরোবেন না: মমতা – cyclone amphan: stay indoors as this super cyclone could be more devastating than aila and bulbul, says mamata banerjee হাইলাইটস দক্ষিণবঙ্গে ইতিমধ্যেই এই ঝড়ে প্রভাব শুরু হয়ে গিয়েছে। বুধবার সারাদিনই ঝোড়ো হাওয়ার সঙ্গে অতিভারী বৃষ্টি হবে কলকাতায়। …

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Cong, Left Renew 'Nationwide Catastrophe' Standing Demand For Amphan, Search Fast Support From Centre

Cong, Left Renew ‘Nationwide Catastrophe’ Standing Demand For Amphan, Search Fast Support From Centre

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File photo: Men remove a fallen electricity pole from a road after cyclone Amphan made its landfall in South 24 Parganas district on West Bengal on Thursday. (Reuters)

Congress leader Abdul Mannan said the cyclone, if declared a national disaster, would invite more attention and help from international NGOs.

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Last Updated: June 6, 2020, 7:30 PM IST

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Surviving Cyclone Amphan: Kolkata, a city battling coronavirus, now faces flooded streets, broken buildings and shattered dreams

Surviving Cyclone Amphan: Kolkata, a city battling coronavirus, now faces flooded streets, broken buildings and shattered dreams

On 20 May, I woke up to photographs and videos of a 33-day-old puppy adopted by my uncle and aunt on the other side of town, allowing me to blissfully ignore Cyclone Amphan warnings jostling for space in my inbox.

Thoughts of new toys, puppy food and pillow beds crowded my mind that Wednesday, as I tried introducing my three-year-old Labrador Retriever to his baby brother over video call. On the…

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Cyclone Yaas - Let us be prepared : MP Raju Bista Dear friends’ parts of West Bengal are set to be hit hard by Cyclone Yaas. The Central Government is coordinating with the State Govt’s to ensure that there is no loss of lives. National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) is being deployed in places where the impacts are expected to be high. The Union Government is working in close coordination with the state government and local authorities. I request all of You to kindly follow instructions from the local administrative authorities and cooperate with them. Even though North Bengal may not be directly impacted due to the storm, but we cannot ignore the devastation high rain events can cause. Especially in Darjeeling hills, Terai and Dooars, we have previously seen the devastation caused by Hurricane Aila and other heavy rain events. Given our fragile ecology and difficult geography, I am therefore requesting you all to be prepared and help each other out. Stock up on emergency supplies – especially medicines, basic good and lights/candles/electricity. I have spoken to NDRF Commandant in Charge-of-West Bengal and NDRF North Bengal In-charge. They have informed me that NDRF has already deployed two teams in Siliguri, Darjeeling District and Sikkim. I have also spoken to Darjeeling DM and other local authorities and taken stock of their preparedness in dealing with any eventuality. I am closely monitoring the situation. I request you all to remain clam and help each other – especially those who are elderly, divyang, and those in poor health. Together we can be prepared to overcome this upcoming crisis. https://www.instagram.com/p/CPSE4hMhGLi/?utm_medium=tumblr

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10 World’s Worst Disaster In Human History

Source: https://www.vikingsteelstructures.com/carports-infographics/10-worlds-worst-disaster-in-human-history

Description: Violent natural disasters have been a fact of human life since the beginning of the species, but the death counts of the most ancient of these disasters are lost to history.

E.g. The Mediterranean island of Stroggli, is believed to have been completely wiped out by a volcanic eruption and ensuing tsunami that eradicated the entire Minoan civilization around 1500 B.C.

How many lives were lost? We’ll never know.

NATURAL HAZARD VS. NATURAL DISASTER A natural hazard is a threat of a naturally occurring event that will have a negative effect on humans. A natural hazard becomes a natural disaster when it takes place, causing significant loss of life and property.

There have been numerous natural disasters in recent history, ranging from the January 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti, to Cyclone Aila, which hit Bangladesh and India in May of 2009, killing approximately 330 people, and affecting upwards of 1 million.

Below is the list of 10 worst disasters in human history:

1931 China floods 1970 Bhola Cyclone 2010 Haiti Earthquake 1920 Haiyuan Earthquake 1976 Tangshan Earthquake 1975 Typhoon Nina 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami 1935 Yangtze Flood 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake 1991 Bangladesh Cyclone

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Aila, Amphan, Asani: What's in a cyclone's name? All you need to know the christening process of a storm

Aila, Amphan, Asani: What’s in a cyclone’s name? All you need to know the christening process of a storm

Aila, Amphan, Asani: What’s in a cyclone’s name? All you need to know the christening process of a storm Short and easy-to-pronounce names are helpful in rapidly and effectively disseminating detailed storm information between hundreds of scattered stations, coastal bases and ships at sea. Short and easy-to-pronounce names are helpful in rapidly and effectively disseminating detailed storm…

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चक्रवात अम्फान को आइला से कहीं अधिक विनाशकारी माना जा रहा: संयुक्त राष्ट्र

चक्रवात अम्फान को आइला से कहीं अधिक विनाशकारी माना जा रहा: संयुक्त राष्ट्र

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वर्ल्ड डेस्क, अमर उजाला, संयुक्त राष्ट्र Updated Fri, 22 May 2020 12:43 PM IST

अम्फान ने पश्चिम बंगाल और ओडिशा को प्रभावित किया है। – फोटो : PTI

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संयुक्त राष्ट्र (यूएन) ने कहा कि पश्चिम बंगाल में तबाही मचाने वाले चक्रवात अम्फान को अब 2009 में दक्षिणी बांग्लादेश तथा पूर्वी भारत में आए चक्रवात आइला से कहीं अधिक विनाशकारी माना जा रहा है। चक्रवात अम्फान से…

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Solidarity with #FightClimateInjustice Riches must bear the burnt of climate change Worth Loss due to Flood in 19881,200 crore takaWorth Loss due to Flood in 19989,200 crore takaWorth Loss due to Cyclone Sidr and Flood in 200723,500 crore takaWorth Loss due to Cyclone Aila in 20092,200 crore takaWorth Loss due to Cyclone Amphan, 20 May 202011,500 crore takaWorth Loss due to Flood 2020,…

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Ganga Ki Sagarika

I am Sagarika. I was born in Gangasagar, a small island in coastal West Bengal. I was 11 years old when cyclone Aila lashed through our village. It was the 25th of May 2009 when I saw, for the first time in my life, the tall coconut trees bow before snapping into two, thick groves of green bamboo being ripped off their leaves and the waves of the Ganga soaring up high as the strong winds from the

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Managing risks from overlapping hazards

Managing risks from overlapping hazards

Nirmalya Choudhury Within a span of a week, first the Western Coast (Gujarat in particular) and then the eastern coast (Odisha and West Bengal) were battered with cyclones —Tauktae in the west and Yaas in the east. While cyclones and storms are not unusual on the Eastern coast (we have witnessed Aila, Bulbul, Amphan in the past), what was unique this time was that an environmental hazard happened…

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On 20 May, I woke up to photographs and videos of a 33-day-old puppy adopted by my uncle and aunt on the other side of town, allowing me to blissfully ignore Cyclone Amphan warnings jostling for space in my inbox. Thoughts of new toys, puppy food and pillow beds crowded my mind that Wednesday, as I tried introducing my three-year-old Labrador Retriever to his baby brother over video call. On the second floor of my 60-year-old home in south Kolkata, the sun was still alive and kicking — a common phenomenon brought about by new life on earth — even when a storm was brewing to monstrous proportions in our backyard. The (short-lived) rose-tinted filters on my eyes sugarcoated the dark skies outside my window and masked the stench of piling neighbourhood filth that had been hurled into the air by winds that were only whistling so far. Clearly, oblivion and complacency are among the many privileges afforded to us by our pucca houses, until I found out that perhaps this time, even that might not be enough to ferry us safely to the other side of the storm. By the time we were done with lunch, our WiFi had started to fumble, deferring delivery and receipt of messages. By four o'clock, both our dogs had sought shelter under furniture and in corners of their respective homes, where the rumble of the storm and battering of the rain were less audible. By 6.30 pm, phone lines and communication channels in our home were dead and the lights had begun to flicker ominously too. For the first time in my life, I caught myself feeling, smelling and touching a storm as it seeped in through bolted doors and windows. Hearing and watching it was simply not enough, it demanded our undivided attention. The asbestos sheet capping our three-storey ancestral home amplifies every drop of rain into what I call 'The Monsoon Orchestra'. It's my attempt at romanticising the otherwise dreadful, nagging phenomenon, occupying over a half of our calendars, to make it mildly more palatable. With the arrival of Amphan, I witnessed the roof threatening to break free and take off into the whirlpool in the sky. It's the same roof that had withstood the tyranny of Aila in 2009,  a cyclone that left behind scars still visible in the subconscious of our everyday lives. Even after losing steam by a notch, and turning into an 'extremely severe cyclonic storm' from a super-cyclone, Amphan was set to bring about more than ten times the wreckage witnessed over a decade ago. "I am really scared. The roof will fly off any minute now," said my mother-in-law, who had turned blue in the face. I was almost defiant in my dismissal of the idea, unwilling to harbour thoughts that refused to seem outlandish anymore. As I walked into our terrace-cum-balcony, the winds bellowed and whiplashed, forcing me to take support of the walls and every other heavy object on the way. The flower pots had been overturned and the space was flooded till the ankles. Someone's window glass exploded in the distance, or maybe it was one of ours,  I couldn't tell; the canopy of trees enveloping our neighbourhood's sky showed cracks exposing ghastly red clouds. In about a minute, or perhaps ten (as time had warped into an unrecognisable lump), I saw the hutment behind my house get hacked neatly into two by a giant tree that snapped from its roots. Shrieks emerging from underneath the debris were carried by the speeding winds and broadcast right into our homes floating a few feet above. As the wires and cables snapped too, a hollow of wet, pitch black swallowed us whole. I ran back into the living room and hugged my dog, as a heavy wooden door came nearly unhinged. This is how it ends, I thought to myself, and prayed to whoever would listen for my dogs to get miraculously saved, and find a loving new home once the nightmare ended. As I type this on my laptop 18 hours after electricity was properly restored in our home, my mind keeps flitting back to the moment I walked back into my room (which is where I am right now) after the storm had passed. It looked distinctly different from how I last saw it five hours ago. The passage leading to my room had flooded, with debris of unknown objects floating around and lodging themselves between our toes. On opening the door, I could hear the rain splatter onto my bed in echoing thuds rippling through the dark. Or perhaps it was the winds, now sluggish and exhausted, but just as cold. A gaping hole that once used to be a part of the ceiling stared right back at me,  the ghoulish red of the sky bleeding all over me and my belongings that lay shrivelled like the wrinkling skin of an old man. My bed, books, clothes were all soaked to the bone. A tightly shut wooden window was now standing ajar, with the curtains and walls dripping from every last inch. It took me a good while to realise that the sky above my head had literally come apart, chipping away at our roof and blowing away a chunk of it. Just when we thought that the world could possibly sink no further after being ravaged by a fatal virus, our only shields of protection against the contagion — the brick walls insulating us — had been left battered and blown into smithereens. On venturing out the following morning in search of help, we passed by scenes of unprecedented devastation: uprooted trees, shattered buildings, splintered electric poles and listless, numb faces that had forgotten how to express or feel. "Ei gacch ta shoraate ektu shahajjo korben, dada? (will you help us move this tree, dada?)" I asked a local rickshaw-puller, who sat on one of the dismembered branches of the tree's corpse. He looked at me with blank eyes and pointed to the remains of what seemed to be his once-faithful carriage, now buried under a pile of dead leaves and wood. I didn't have an answer; we decided to take a different route. Hours later, as I watched the two kind repairmen — who agreed to help us restore the missing pieces of our ancient, weather-beaten house — at work, I reminded myself, yet again, to never take my privileges (especially the roof over my head) for granted. Pardon my pessimism, but if 2020 isn't out to kill us already, it surely means to teach us a lesson or two in humility. As we stumble into day five since Amphan's visit, the clear blue skies have done little to reassure us of a normalcy stable or long enough to rebuild our homes, towns and villages. Relatives, friends and acquaintances continue to remain out of reach and possibly in an impenetrable darkness with communication channels hacked to death. People wearing masks are rebelling on the streets, pleading for a way back to their mundane old lives, which now seem like distant realities, if not impossible dreams. With politicking ensuing over the 80 dead and millions displaced in Bengal, people are left in the lurch yet again, caught in the inescapable crossfire of a brutal ongoing pandemic and the ghost of a deadly natural disaster.

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UN Says Cyclone Amphan Extra Harmful than 2009's Aila Which Ravaged Bangladesh, Japanese India

UN Says Cyclone Amphan Extra Harmful than 2009’s Aila Which Ravaged Bangladesh, Japanese India

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Residents salvage their belongings from the rubble of a damaged house in the aftermath of Cyclone Amphan, in South 24 Parganas district in the eastern state of West Bengal. (Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri)

Several roads have been blocked, shops damaged, and streets waterlogged from the heavy rainfall during high tide. Embankment breaches have occurred throughout the state while water…