Cyclone Yaas is the 96th tropical cyclone to strike Odisha in 130 years
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Cyclone Yaas may have caused jellyfish to wash up on Puri beach: Experts
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Brainstorming session to protect coastal ecosystems
Sundara Narayan Patro| president, OES
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Bhubaneswar, Jan 3: A webinar was organised on the theme ‘Coastal ecosystems of Odisha: Human impacts and changing scenario’ by Odisha Environmental Society Sunday. Experts said that while global warming and climate change are gaining momentum as the off shoot of unsustainable developmental practices, scientists are warning about the vulnerability of the coastal regions to such detrimental alterations.
Under such circumstance, mitigation and adaptation measures are required to be undertaken in right earnest to protect the coastal resources and the flow of benefits from them. Coasts are very sensitive to sea level rise, increase in frequency and intensity of storms, higher level of precipitation and warmer ocean temperatures. Further, rising carbon dioxide concentration is making seawaters more acidic, which has significant impact on coastal ecosystems and the species of