Rainfall pattern changing in India

Uttarakhand receives more rainfall in June than before

Joshimath: What escalated the situation on the intervening night of January 2-3?

New leaks reported in several areas; closed tunnel in Tapovan may be the source

Ban on illegal mining ineffective

It has only increased cost of illegally sourced construction material

Uttarakhand on bumpy recovery road

The state needs stringent town planning and environment assessment to prevent disasters

Industry shadow on forest panel

Controversy over non-official members; one appointee to advisory committee quits

Court orders water supply scheme for Khurpatal

Growing construction in the hill station is drying up springs downhill

Joshimath: Subsidence in several Uttarakhand villages since December 25, 2022

Down To Earth ground report finds widening cracks in remote villages around Joshimath

Labour exit

Labour shortage in agriculture forces Indian farmers to innovate to stay afloat

For a clean ganga

Shut and opened

Corpses rot, flow down the Ganga in Uttarakhand

Chief minister seeks permission for mass funeral; doctors fear break out of epidemic

Urbanisation making us more susceptible to natural disasters, says global report

Calls for preparing communities and locals for possible disasters

Pindar’s last gush

Dam proposed on the last unrestricted tributary of Alaknanda stirs valley residents

Call of the phantom

Government fails to effectively execute Project Snow Leopard

Ganga's moment

NTPC dam rattles local elections

Officials subverted elections to the forest council that opposed dam, allege villagers

Kedarnath temple in Uttarakhand survives glacier, floods

Lichen studies show Chorabari glacier submerged temple, then retreated

Natural disasters: why are we always so unprepared?

Government agencies merely shift blame but take no action to plan and prepare ahead

22 million people displaced by natural disasters globally last year

Floods, storms and quakes displaced 19 million people in Asia alone

Uttarakhand residents get little succour

They have lost homes, belongings; claim no government aid available as yet

Ganga saga part II: redesign dams, not rivers

Cleared at cost of biodiversity

Environment ministry clears hydro project rejected twice by its advisory committee

Living made difficult

Air to lung to DNA

Science in our daily lives