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Ganga

  • 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

  • hydroelectric dams in Arunachal Pradesh

    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

  • Yamuna river, Taj Mahal, Neil McAllister / Alamy

    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

  • An encounter with the elusive Gangetic dolphin

    January 15, 2021

  • A little help transforms farming in two West Bengal villages

    January 14, 2021

  • Bihar farmers save the Greater Adjutant Stork

    January 12, 2021

  • hydroelectric dams in Arunachal Pradesh

    Best of 2020: Himalayan dams become economic burdens

    December 26, 2020

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

    December 07, 2020

  • Yamuna river, Taj Mahal, Neil McAllister / Alamy

    Opinion: An equation to restore river basins in South Asia

    November 05, 2020

Pollution

  • A little help transforms farming in two West Bengal villages

    January 14, 2021

  • hydroelectric dams in Arunachal Pradesh

    Best of 2020: Himalayan dams become economic burdens

    December 26, 2020

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

    December 07, 2020

  • Yamuna river, Taj Mahal, Neil McAllister / Alamy

    Opinion: An equation to restore river basins in South Asia

    November 05, 2020

Running Dry

  • A little help transforms farming in two West Bengal villages

    January 14, 2021

  • hydroelectric dams in Arunachal Pradesh

    Best of 2020: Himalayan dams become economic burdens

    December 26, 2020

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

    December 07, 2020

  • Yamuna river, Taj Mahal, Neil McAllister / Alamy

    Opinion: An equation to restore river basins in South Asia

    November 05, 2020

Biodiversity

  • An encounter with the elusive Gangetic dolphin

    January 15, 2021

  • Bihar farmers save the Greater Adjutant Stork

    January 12, 2021

  • Kanwar Lake was the largest oxbow lake in Asia, but it has shrunk dramatically [image by: Majid Alam]

    Caste tensions at depleted Kanwar lake ahead of Bihar elections

    October 26, 2020

  • Indigenous residents protest huge coal mine plan in India

    October 09, 2020

Regional Cooperation

  • Along the Koshi, flooded in Nepal, ignored by India

    August 13, 2020

  • Flooding along the Bagmati is an annual phenomenon in Bihar [image: Alamy]

    Floods hit Bihar again after heavy early monsoon rain

    July 14, 2020

  • Sundarbans,Sajnekhali wildlife sanctuary

    Community-run tourism can help Sundarbans cyclone recovery

    June 15, 2020

  • Changing lives around the Mahakali

    February 12, 2020

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