Ace swimmer Lewis Pugh swims seven seas to raise awareness
The initiative is to campaign for dedicated Marine Protected Areas across the world
Blind to rain
Drought fails to crush a Bundelkhand village
Last look: Consensus on Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework draft remains elusive during final pre-COP15 meet
Not enough progress made at 5th Open-ended Working Group on Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
Can Montreal help communities: Here is what to expect from COP15
The fate of biodiversity hangs in balance as negotiators congregate in Montreal to discuss Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
River pollution, conservation: UP’s fishing community bears brunt
Regulations of industrial, municipal inflow in Ganga, at the centre of pollution mitigation policies, have dissociated rivers from riverine …
Infosys to switch to renewable energy, go carbon neutral
The global information technology services company, Infosys, headquartered at Bengaluru, plans to become carbon neutral and shift completely to …
India
A watershed plan
Recurrent droughts and floods coupled with mass poverty, chronic unemployment and pervasive malnutrition are the major challenges before India. …
Bundelkhand's dalit women join hands to drought-proof their villages
96 women-led pani panchayats take over water resource management
The god of ecological things
Our Commonwealth
Getting more with less
System of crop intensification, specially in rice, has shown sizeable savings in water and seed usage. Yet its adoption has not spread despite …
The escape route
Punjab, which accounts for only 1.5 per cent of the total geographical area of the country, cannot continue producing for the whole country. It …
Cancer-struck
Incidence of cancer and other diseases have increased. But callous officials prefer to call it a 'coincidence'
Punjab: end of the revolution ?
Cost of production has spiralled, but the rate of increase in production has not shown a similar trend. Ecological and social costs, meanwhile, …
Now what?
Rolling on
The politics of inefficient irrigation technology
Dream stuck in pipeline
The Melamchi project promised to end Kathmandu’s acute water shortage. But 15 years later, it is nowhere near completion
Voices from Making Water Everybody's Business Talking about water
Water is bound to dominate the agenda of the country's politicians and planners in the future Though ignored for years by the political …
Is the joyride over ?
There was fear in the 1960s. Would India continue to wait for food imports to feed itself? The scientific community came up with an answer that …
Pee, poop and paani
Bharat Lal Seth recounts his experience of drinking water reclaimed from sewage