Simply put: ODF India

Modi declares India ODF

Sustaining the status the next big challenge

Rains apart, blame the dams for Maharashtra, Karnataka floods: Report

Poor management of dams exacerbate floods, instead of mitigating them, it adds

Environmental crimes: India may take upto 33 yrs to clear case backlog, says report

By the end of 2018, the number of cases pending trial climbed to 48,238

Drought in the Amazon can cause local caiman extirpations, spike human-caiman conflict

Drought conditions have previously been cited as a potential factor in increased alligator attacks on humans

Simply Put: Durga Puja 2023

As told to Parliament (July 31, 2023): India lost 661 tigers in nearly 6 years, says minister

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Martian surprise: NASA’s Perseverance finds igneous rocks altered by water

Study adds to the evidence that Mars transformed from wet to a dry planet

India’s lakes, reservoirs losing more water every year & climate change may be to blame: Report

An increase in surface area of the water bodies contributes to this loss

Is ethanol blending in petrol really green?

Aggressive sugarcane farming contaminates land, water

'Defaulting Ganga dams in Uttarakhand to be shut for a month'

A state govt undertaking and 2 private dams don't want to follow water discharge norms

India had world's highest pollution-related deaths in 2019: Report

Deaths due to other forms of pollutions also highest in India

Surface irrigation may encourage monocropping: Evidence from Telangana holds lessons for India

Providing farm households with new irrigation facilities that improve groundwater table also significantly enhances farm profits

An ancient system that could bring water to dry areas

An ancient system of drawing water from aquifers “qanat system” could help Africa's dry areas faciing water shortages

How climate vulnerability in South Bihar takes a toll on its groundwater

Higher unpredictability in monsoon rainfall is evident from the 1990s onwards

75 years of people’s power: Odisha’s Denkanal, Balasore use urban-rural convergence to treat faecal sludge

This process is more economical and less cumbersome

As told to Parliament (July 29, 2021): Some 927,606 children in India are ‘severely acute malnourished’

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Microplastics concentration in Ganga more than any other major world river, finds new study

Varanasi, followed by Kanpur and Haridwar, has most sites of pollution

Simply Put: COVID-19 vs climate change

Sewers are gas chambers where manual scavengers are sent to die: SC

Apex court comes down heavily on govt on the issue of manual scavenging

Why Bhavnagar farmers oppose limestone mining

Letter to high court-appointed panel lists reasons

How rising water vapour in the atmosphere is amplifying warming and making extreme weather worse

Water vapour is estimated to account for 50% of the total greenhouse effect

Live storage at 62% of capacity in monsoon’s third month

However, storage levels are not uniform across the country

Simply Put: Age of inequality

Half of world’s healthcare facilities lack basic hygiene services, nearly 4 billion people at risk

Every year, a whopping 670,000 newborns lose their lives to sepsis