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

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

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

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

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

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

In most places, the annual Hindu festival caused serious water pollution this year as well

Over thirty years since high levels of arsenic was found in groundwater in West Bengal, little has been done to avert a slow-burn health crisis

Kanwar lake in north-east India was once a thriving ecosystem that supported migrating birds and fishing communities, but it has been devastated by government neglect and encroachment

West Bengal government’s dream to develop the world’s second-largest coal mine becomes a nightmare as elections loom