by Karishma Raj | Mar 20, 2019 | Home, News, Sustainability, Wildlife
The World Sparrow Day is a day particularly marked to create awareness about the house sparrow as well as other common birds in the urban environment. The day is also useful as it brings to focus the worldwide threats to their population. It is observed on 20 March....
by Karishma Raj | Mar 6, 2019 | Home, News, Pollution
As many as 7 of the top 10 most polluted cities of the world are to be found in India. Gurgaon or Gurugram now has the dubious distinction of leading this pack. This is as per a new report which shows India’s battle with declining air quality and how unsuccessful it...
by Karishma Raj | Feb 10, 2019 | Home, Rivers, Travel
The Ullal Town Municipal Council, with a population of about 54,000 is Mangalore sub-district’s most populous town municipal council located in Mangalore sub district of Dakshina Kannada district in the state Karnataka in India. The total geographical area of...
by Karishma Raj | Jan 31, 2019 | Home, News, Rivers, Sustainability
Coastal communities in Ullal, a region in Mangalore, are experiencing a wide range of natural hazards that include coastal erosion, flooding from upland runoff, high and low lake levels, severe storms, storm waves and storm surge, shoreline erosion, landslides, and...
by Karishma Raj | Jan 23, 2019 | Home, News, Sustainability
As the management of coastal hazards such as sea erosion is a multidisciplinary, multi stakeholder subject, many ministries and government departments at national and state level have undertaken/planned projects to manage and mitigate sea erosion and tried reducing...
