A young student from Chennai has won a UN award for his outstanding campaign on preserving mangroves. Twenty four-year-old, Salim Khan travelled across the coast of Tamil Nadu for over six months to create awareness about mangroves.
Be it cyclones, floods or sea level rises, Mangroves protect coastlines.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/mission-mangrove-11yrold-spreads-green-message/71952-3.html
Mayor is asking for racecourse to be converted into a parking lot.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/raze-greens-make-parking-lot-says-mumbai-mayor/45134-3.html
Mumbai is flirting with danger by cutting down the Mangrove forests, which are a defence against surging tidal waves.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/mumbais-mangroves-dying-slow-death/42160-3.html
Mangroves continue to bear the brunt of development despite lessons taught by the Mumbai floods.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/cj-saving-mumbais-mangroves/39379-20.html
Mumbai may not have to struggle with monsoons if an environmental report of 1996 hadn't escaped its attention.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/development-harms-mums-ecosystem/16705-3.html
As Mumbai reels under the rains CNN-IBN explores the delicate balance between development and the city's ecosystem.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/in-mumbai-mangroves-make-way-for-roads/12589-3.html
Environmentalist Rishi Aggrawal has gone out of the way to make things easier for the next generation.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/rishi-fights-to-save-andheri-mangroves/12261-3.html
The Mangroves that are vital to Mumbai's defense against floods, tides and cyclones are steadily being destroyed.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/mumbais-natural-defense-under-siege/5704-3.html
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