Re-negotiate Indus Treaty with Pakistan in light of climate change: Standing Committee on Water Resources

The 1960 Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan did not take present-day issues like climate change into account, a new parliamentary …

How India and Pakistan are competing over the mighty Indus river

It is time all countries in the Indus basin acknowledge their dependence on each other and discuss joint solutions

Wet vengeance

Move to revoke Indus treaty

Indus Water Treaty: Has it prevented Jammu & Kashmir from using their own resources?

The people of the region blame the treaty for their underdevelopment

Harappa, Rakhigarhi, Dholavira: 200 years of droughts may have erased these Indus megacities, says study

The prolonged droughts forced the civilisation to reorganise their settlements & switch to drought-resilient crops

Indus dam causes anxiety

The Pakistan government continues to face a barrage of criticism over the US $8-billion Kalabagh dam project, proposed to be located on Indus …

When all flows out

The recent dispute over the Indus' waters stems from its faulty allocation

Canal controversy

Early Indians: Joining the dots and burying the myths

Tony Joseph debunks the myth of India being the homeland of the Aryans and offers a scientific chronicle

Rivers have always been a part of Punjabi and Sikh identity, memory

For 5,000 years, the five ‘torrents of water’ that flow through its plains, have fashioned Punjabi life and character

Moon River: The Chenab, a symbol of lovers, today symbolises pain of partition & consumerism, says Surjit Patar

Down To Earth speaks to prominent Punjabi poet about the Chenab as the inauguration date of the bridge over it nears

Dam row

Drags on between India, Pak

Dam deferred

R.S Bisht revisits the Harappan site in Dholavira

A bird, its photographs and a serendipitous discovery

Using photographs provided online, we found that information given in field guides regarding the Variable Wheatear was in need of an update

Haryana’s Rors brought Western flavour to the Indus Valley

New genetic study claims that the Rors came to the Indus Valley when it was flourishing during the Bronze Age and inducted West Eurasian genetic …

China’s Brahmaputra dam: Trans-boundary water governance in South Asia needs a rethink

As Beijing announces construction of a super dam on the Yarlung Zangbo, it is time to reconsider the fluvial landscape approach to river basin …

Temperatures rise, live storage in 123 reservoirs declines

The levels plummetted to 47% from 57% of the total capacity in last one month, according to Central Water Commission data

Death of the Indus delta

It was from the port towns of this region that Arab dhows laden with merchandise set sail for distant towns in the days of yore. Today, …

Dolphins in distress

Shrivelling up

‘My method’s an addition to the knowledge about climate change ending the Indus Valley Civilisation’

Down To Earth speaks to Nishant Malik from the Rochester Institute of Technology, United States about the new method he has developed to show …

The fight to save Moenjodaro

A worldwide initiative to save the ancient city is trying to lower the water table around it and bind back the Indus before it gets washed away

Indus dolphins on the decline

Water extraction for irrigation one of the prime reasons for the decline, says study

Baglihar, round 2