Authorities say loss of livelihoods and diverted attention led to a surge in illegal activities during the pandemic-induced lockdown

Residents of the Sundarbans wonder why they are rebuilding, when their lands have been encroached for years by the seas, and their huts that will fall down in the next cyclone

Two designers reflect on a house aesthetic by the side of a river in north India, and the life of the woman who has made it into a charming example of upcycling

The morning after the strongest cyclone ever to hit West Bengal there is immense devastation, and there is still no news from much of Sundarbans, no electricity in most of Kolkata

On World Bee Day, a look at how bee-keeping benefits everyone

Thousands of people evacuated from their homes are crammed inside the buildings being used as Covid-19 quarantine centres, because there is no other shelter available

African Swine Flu, highly contagious, with no vaccine, no cure, and has decimated pig populations in East and Southeast Asia has reached India’s northeast, possibly through carcasses floating down from China

Countries along the Bay of Bengal have finalised their EEZs, but in the absence of active cooperation, fishers continue to be jailed in other countries while overfishing continues

Fisheries markets collapsed in the first days of the lockdown, impoverishing hundreds of thousands of small fishers, and recovery is nowhere in sight

India’s second longest river is flowing clean in the lockdown forced by Covid-19; a grim reminder of how it was before may persuade all to keep it that way