Trees against deserts

Grow more trees around fields and along waterbodies to prevent desertification

Erosion by Ganga threatens India’s largest botanical garden in Howrah

Agencies cite fund crunch, seek central assistance   

Personality clashes lead to internal schisms

DESTRUCTIVE DAM

A sorry state, indeed!

New method to recognise erosion gullies on satellite photos

Organic matters

Soil carbon can foretell soil health

Floodplain loss: Basins of Irrawaddy, Tapi, Indus, Cauvery rivers flowing through India altered most due to human activities

Asia lost the biggest area of floodplains among all continents from 1992-2019

Green business

Locust repellents

The insect dislikes crops rich in nitrogen and proteins

Measure of tolerance

New way to calculate capacity of soil to resist erosion

TANZANIA

Algal Gloom

Don't let the carbon go

Be careful how land-use and land-cover changes

Soil tolerates erosion

Ganga changes course in Haridwar

Erosion may be speeding shift

Farmers face land crisis

As told to Parliament (April 5, 2022): India’s doctor-population ratio is 1:834

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Silt spells trouble for Sukhna lake

Chemical imbalance

Waters of the Sunderbans are turning hostile to estuarine life

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Spate of neglect

Root out erosion

Drought monitoring: Untapped data

Government does little with records that could help reduce effect of drought on agriculture

No to shipyard

The Rs 300-crore project is being builtin Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore district