An encounter with the elusive Gangetic dolphin

January 15, 2021

After a chance sighting, writer Nimesh Ved explores how India’s endangered river dolphin is faring in Uttar Pradesh, and asks how the inland waterways project will affect it

A little help transforms farming in two West Bengal villages

January 14, 2021

Training and improved irrigation have helped indigenous and marginalised communities in two villages to take up farming and reduce their dependence on forests

Bihar farmers save the Greater Adjutant Stork

January 12, 2021

The endangered birds, locally called Garuda, repay by killing farm pests

Best of 2020: Himalayan dams become economic burdens

December 26, 2020

Spiralling costs, long delays, earthquakes and landslide risks plague developers trying to build hydropower projects in the Indian Himalayan states

Climate change worsens water crisis in Indus-Ganga-Brahmaputra basins

December 07, 2020

New satellite data shows less rain and warmer weather is further depleting already overexploited groundwater in one of the world’s most populated regions

Opinion: An equation to restore river basins in South Asia

November 05, 2020

Non-profit organisation INTACH has developed a model of basin management that prioritises the flow of medium-sized and minor rivers in the Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra basins