Restore flow, rivers are self-purifying

We need to go back to the drawing board of Jackie King, the South African who won the World Water Prize 2019 

How we're using fish ear bones as 'time capsules' of past river health

Oxygen isotope values of fish ear bones gives information on the temperature of the water, while studying concentrations of trace elements …

Should we confer legal right upon nature?

French philosopher Michel Seres had long ago proposed the idea of agency for the natural environment as a whole so that its rights can be protected

Life along the Kosi: series 1

The saying goes Eqypt is the gift of the Nile. Throughout history rivers around the world have nurtured civilisations. In India, rivers are …

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Big Dams, Displaced People: Rivers of Sorrow, Rivers of Change Edited by Enakshi Ganguly Thukral Publisher: Sage Publications, Delhi Price: Rs 120

Hungary resents Slovak dam

Hungarians are raising environmental slogans against opening of the Gabcikovo dam's sluice gates by Czechoslovakia. The dam is built on the river …

Dams and poaching doom dolphins

There are just 5,000 river dolphins left in India and unless strict measures are undertaken to protect the remaining population, warn experts, …

Doomed dam

A five-year-long protest in France resulted in a major victory for conservationists, with the government being forced to abandon plans to build a dam.

Mekong's miseries

A new regional treaty to usher in dams on the Mekong river has drawn flak from environmental groups

Talking about water

Human costs and environmental impact of the proposed multipurpose project on the Mahakali river dominated proceedings at a recent Indo-Nepal …

More than 40 rivers have dried so far in Bihar, even as summer is yet to peak

However, the issue of water crisis is missing in the ongoing Lok Sabha election campaign

Microplastics detected in fish samples from Cauvery

The presence of microplastics causes growth defects, skeletal deformities

New research institute

NGT allows mining on Valapattanam river bank

Residents of river-island Pamburuthi have been opposing sand mining in the region

Shrinking homes

The population of river dolphin has declined by 50 per cent since Independence

Test crop washed away

Against the World bank

River of long ago

Strong opposition

Appeal by NGOs

You are the government

To hell and Back

How TBS helped communities revive the rural environment

New norms

...are on the anvil for Gujarat's Amalakhari river

Saraswati underground

Experts attempt to map the mythical river's palaeo-channels and put them to good use

A fish called hilsa

The population of Bangladesh's national fish is rapidly dwindling in local rivers