The changing face of India's lakes

Lakes are being lost or altered because of the disruption of natural processes by intensification of agriculture, urbanisation, pollution and …

The salt of the earth

Moves are afoot to convert the brackish Pulicat lake into a freshwater one to supply water to Madras city and authorities seem to have little …

The broken mirror

A pristine lake that once drew birds of several species today lies clogged with weeds, a victim of unplanned economic development.

A risky route

A Rs 12,000-crore coastal road project in Mumbai is facing stiff resistance from fishers, urban planners and environmentalists. But, the …

Tribal affairs ministry’s report on FRA riddled with discrepancies

Area of forest land recognised reduced, more titles distributed than approved

Kerala court allows law violation

Permits use of paddy field unfit for cultivation for other purposes

Bomb shelters

Who will grow food?

Rogue illusionists

A village crops up in the heart of a forest as three government employees cook the books

If only cities can see wetlands

It is time we realised that a water body is not an ornamental luxury or a wasted land

Till the last drop

The great wetland grab

Guwahati allows construction on wetlands, but will not spare poor settlers on hills. A photo narrative by Sayantan Bera

Goa's disappearing khazan farms dying a slow death

Who messed it up?

Guwahati indicts poor settlers for flash floods, ignores damage on wetlands by construction work

Martyr and a court ruling

Wetlands in Howrah still ravaged by real estate

ONGCignores green rules

Oil company did not restore abandoned well sites in Tripura

‘Repressive governments use financial crises, global pandemics to change societal norms’

Sam Szoke-Burke, senior legal researcher, Columbia University, talks to DTE amid reports of governments trying to take control of land in name of …

Sun, sea and garbage

Green alert in Navi Mumbai

Travails of a waterscape

Mumbai’s second sea link unlikely

Coastal road could be built to link Worli to Haji Ali

Khap panchayat bans paddy

Rice cultivation has led to waterlogging and soil salinity in Haryana’s Jhajjar district

The vanishing lakes

There is more water than land in north Bihar. The rivers that ramble down from the Himalaya feed numerous depressions scattered all over the …

Concerns over Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project

Concrete invasion

Colombo’s marshes cannot avert floods the way they used to. Construction is to be blamed