The Shompen live in the rainforests of Great Nicobar. If their forest and rivers are destroyed, they will be too, says a press release from Survival International. The group, which works, “in ...

On the southern coast of Albania, where the Adriatic and Ionian worlds meet, the landscape unfolds with an almost impossible beauty. The Narta Lagoon glimmers beneath the Mediterranean sun. Flamingos ...

On a clear morning, the slow life on the isolated island of Great Nicobar seems untouched by the anxieties of the modern world. Rare species of trees tower over dense canopies in the tropical ...

BANGKOK, Thailand -- India's military is expanding across the Andaman Sea into Southeast Asia with construction of a multi-billion-dollar air and sea base on remote Great Nicobar Island, New Delhi's ...

Deep within the eastern Indian Ocean, bulldozers are beginning to reshape one of India's most remote and ecologically rich territories. Great Nicobar Island, a tropical paradise covered by ancient ...

(MENAFN- Asia Times) BANGKOK – India's military is expanding across the Andaman Sea into Southeast Asia with the construction of a multi-billion-dollar air and sea base on remote Great Nicobar Island, ...

The debates and judicial proceedings around the Rs.90,000 crore Great Nicobar Island (GNI) project have not run out of steam. The mega project spanning 166 square kilometres at the southernmost tip of ...

Omkar Khandekar/NPR Fireflies illuminate the edge of a forest on the Great Nicobar Island as field biologist Sumit Kumar tries to find a particularly shy creature. A soft hoot wafts through the ...

THE GREAT NICOBAR ISLAND, India — Fireflies illuminate the edge of a forest on the Great Nicobar Island as field biologist Sumit Kumar tries to find a particularly shy creature. A soft hoot wafts ...

Apart from the indigenous people, the Great Nicobar island's population consists mainly of a few thousand settlers, who live in sleepy villages alongside dense forests. A major development project ...