The parching of India's Venice

Kerala finds its rivers drying up and beginning to die

Run of the mill

100 times worse than Farakka

Stormy meet

River linking kindles debate

GAP full of holes

Discordant note

Forging links

Government pursues river-linking

Turbulent flows the Ganga

Climate change will cause disputes such as the Helmand to continue for years: Fatemeh Aman

Down To Earth speaks to Senior Fellow at the Washington-based Middle East Institute on the dispute between Kabul and Tehran over the Helmand …

Why global environmentalists are silent on Venezuela's mining crisis

Venezuela opened up a large swath of the country to mining to prop up its economy. But a huge part of the area is a fragile ecosystem that …

Beware of the Ganga

A dip in the Ganga was meant to purify both body and soul. But devotees in Bihar have had a bad experience

India and Germany sign agreement for cleaning Ganga

Germany will contribute Rs 22.5 crore to the three-year-long project

Union Budget 2022-23: Activists express disbelief at sanction of money for river interlinking

River interlinking projects including Ken-Betwa do not have statutory clearances, are sub judice and have hardly progressed in the last two …

Ken-Betwa river interlinking: Core forest area of Panna tiger reserve will come under water, warns study

At loss: 2 million trees, tiger and its species, 58.03 sq km of critical tiger habitat

CWC tells states to keep close watch on 15 dams

Central Water Commission asks dam officials to release water according to the rule curve and standard operating procedure  

Is Rally for Rivers based on impractical ideas?

Isha Foundation's Rally for Rivers initiative to plant trees alongside river banks appears impractical and lacks scientific rigour

Amu Darya and Kabul river basins major sources of water for Afghanistan: Study

28.6 billion cubic metres of the country’s water is generated outside it, according to the study

The chronicles of Sundarbans

Stories of daily battle for survival of people in the world’s largest delta

Gujarat’s rain-fed Fofal river dries up

This has sent villagers in Saurashtra region into a tizzy owing to the acute agrarian crisis

Saraswati: the river that was

From time immemorial, the river Saraswati is akin to a goddess

Holy muck

CHINA

Operation salmon

Gaps in action

An alternative plan to clean up the river Ganga at Varanasi has been submitted by a local NGO

Worship now, repent later

Do Indian festivals have to be as polluting as they are at present?