Unlike Steinbeck’s defamed ‘salt-water-eating bushes’ of the Sea of Cortez, the Sunderbans is an excellent forest treasure for Bangladesh, India’s West Bengal, and the rest of the world. In 1997, ...

Without formal training or funding, they have braved rugged terrain, deciphered ancient scripts and uncovered hidden ...

Rising sea levels and the Indian Ocean temperature patterns have caused some Maldives’ islands to lose up to half their mangrove cover over the past five years, a loss portending what could happen in ...

A fortnight from now, more than 1,400 cameras will be installed at strategic locations across the Sunderbans forest to capture images of its apex predator. The trap cameras will be in place for around ...

A fire that broke out in a store room of Sundarban Courier Service in Dhaka’s Kallyanpur branch was brought under control nearly five hours of frantic efforts. Rakibul Hasan, duty officer of Fire ...

Navigation apps already know where stop signs and traffic lights are located, mainly because vehicles on the road stop in front of them. These applications collect traffic data that help them ...

Sunderbans, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is known for its mangrove forests and magnificent fauna. The mangrove forests act as a natural shield, mitigating the impacts of natural calamities by ...

Here’s how it works. Should you get your directions from Google Maps or Apple Maps? It's a decision all iPhone users have to make at some point — regardless of whether you're a long-time ...

Ten fishermen, who were kidnapped by robbers, have been rescued by the Forest Department officers after a gunfight in Takkakhali area in the Sunderbans’s Chunkuri River. Three boats, a solar panel and ...

He drinks a lot of coffee in Seattle. It's become so second nature for me to follow -- and occasionally defy -- the driving directions in Apple Maps on my iPhone that I forget everything else the ...

The women, many of whom have seen firsthand the devastation cyclones can bring, say the Sundarban mangroves are their only safeguard against such threats. They expressed deep concern over the gradual ...