ZSI Discovers New Species in West Bengal! 🇮🇳
Researchers have found two new marine worm species—Namalycastis solenotognatha and Nereis dhritiae—on the Bengal coast.

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Vanishing Wisdom of the Sundarbans–How climate change erodes centuries of ecological knowledge BANGALORE & PAKHIRALAY, India, October 15 (IPS) - Bapi Mondal’s morning routine in Bangalore is a world away from his ancestral village, Pakhiralay, in the Sundarbans, West Bengal. He wakes before dawn, navigates heavy traffic, and spends eight long hours molding plastic battery casings. It’s not the life his honey-gathering forefathers knew, but factors like extreme storms, rising seas, and deadly soil salinity forced the 40-year-old to abandon centuries of family tradition and travel miles away to work in a concrete suburban factory.

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Ravenous sea feeds on Sunderbans shore, 40% of Ghoramara Island to shrink by 2042 'On populated islands, erosion means lost homes and farmland; on uninhabited islands, it means lost mangroves,' Mousumi Dey, a research scholar at the Doctor Hari Singh Gour University (DHSGU), Sagar,...

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“On populated islands, erosion means lost homes and farmland; on uninhabited islands, it means lost mangroves.”
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