Climate-driven warming and shifting monsoon patterns are projected to alter the water chemistry, threatening fish habitat and the ecological balance of Manipur’s Loktak lake. A new study finds that ...

Global agencies say El Niño is likely to strengthen in the coming months to a moderate to strong event. A stronger El Niño could increase the risk of erratic weather, heatwaves, weaker monsoon ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. There was a native mango tree in the front yard of our home that my father bought for the family in the mid-1970s. He had retired from government ...

India is positioning itself as a global investment hub for artificial intelligence and data centres, with the latest gigawatt-scale investment in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Environmental concerns ...

A new study finds that the hard-ground swamp deer translocated to Satpura Tiger Reserve have grown from 98 to 172 individuals. The deer, moved from Kanha Tiger Reserve to reduce extinction risk from a ...

A new study shows that groundwater, not glaciers, is the lifeline of the Ganga river. Groundwater discharge increases the Ganga river’s volume by about 120% in the Gangetic Plains compared to its ...

On August 5, Dharali, a village in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand, was hit by a flash flood in the Himalayan stream Kheer Gad, leaving at least 68 people missing and one dead. Rapid construction over the ...

Researchers have developed a new dataset that shows global drivers of deforestation at a one-kilometre spatial resolution. For Asia, the analysis reveals that wildfires were the dominant drivers at 65 ...

Initiated in the early 1970s, the Mandal dam remains unfinished, displacing hundreds of families without full compensation. Despite fresh clearances and reduced reservoir levels, locals say jobs, land ...

Nagaland is the first state in India to insure its entire geography against heavy rainfall. The scheme was revised to include a more accurate threshold based on localised meteorological data, and ...

Submerged Worlds and Other Amazing Stories of India’s Mighty Rivers by Vaishali Shroff brings together well-researched stories of the ecology, mythology, politics, history and culture of India’s ...

Cotton is one of India’s top agricultural exports and between 2011-12 and 2020-21, the country’s cotton exports consumed roughly 40 trillion litres of water. Top cotton-producing districts in ...