You arrive expecting wilderness. You find something watching you. The boat leaves Godkhali jetty before sunrise, and within ...

Sundarbans literally means "beautiful forest," but as the novelist Amitav Ghosh writes, "There is no prettiness here to invite the stranger in." Journey To The Sundarbans: The 'Beautiful Forest' Of ...

Mangrove forests protect tropical coasts from storms, store large amounts of carbon and provide vital habitats for plants and animals, serving, for example, as nurseries for fish and crabs. They also ...

West Bengal is pushing to merge tiger habitats in the Sundarbans under a single administrative structure. Here’s what the move means for tiger conservation, local communities and the world’s largest ...

Although preventing all the consequences of climate change is now impossible, we can adopt policies to mitigate its impact. In a set of policy recommendations, researchers examine the development of ...

It’s a battle for resources in the mangrove forests of the Sundarbans in India. In this wild place, rhesus macaque monkeys and massive monitor lizards may come face to face in search of food. Who wins ...

A recent fire in the eastern Sundarbans of Bangladesh has highlighted the rising risk of burning in the world’s biggest mangrove forest. The Bangladesh government says it’s drawing up guidelines to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. About 300 people and 46 tigers have been killed since 2000 in human-tiger conflicts in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans. Authorities here have decided to ...

The Bangladesh government's ban on access to the Sundarbans forest has left those who earn their living from the world’s largest stretch of mangroves in hardship amid a lack of promised compensation.

Sundarbans literally means "beautiful forest," but as the novelist Amitav Ghosh writes, "There is no prettiness here to invite the stranger in." The largest mangrove forest in the world — home to ...