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
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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
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
January 12, 2021
The endangered birds, locally called Garuda, repay by killing farm pests
December 26, 2020
Spiralling costs, long delays, earthquakes and landslide risks plague developers trying to build hydropower projects in the Indian Himalayan states
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
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
November 03, 2020
In most places, the annual Hindu festival caused serious water pollution this year as well
October 27, 2020
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
October 26, 2020
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
October 09, 2020
West Bengal government’s dream to develop the world’s second-largest coal mine becomes a nightmare as elections loom