Chambal's land leveling experiment leads to socio-economic disruption

The ravines of Chambal used to provide multiple livelihood options for its poor and marginal farmers. Leveling of land is triggering conflicts …

Ravines of Chambal : taking back the badlands

Down to Earth looks at how ravines are affecting villages in Chambal and how communities in this region are involved in recovering these lands

At a blind bend

The Madhya Pradesh government has over and again failed to reclaim the ravines of Chambal Valley. Will it succeed this time?

Gharials of Chambal

The Gharial Conservation Program is one of India's best faring wildlife conservation efforts. R K Sharma, an officer at the Gharial breeding …

Four Chambal dams stopped

40 gharials released in Ghaghara river amid lockdown

About 250 gharials have been released in the river since 2014

Tender notice for common sense

Police seize 4,000 tonnes of sand mined from gharial sanctuary

There have been four attacks by the sand mafia on State Armed Forces' jawans protecting the Chambal river banks in the last three months, says …

Studying gharials

50 mugger crocodiles die in Kota in a month

The Kala Talab has been filled with fly ash and soil to build residential colonies in the east Rajasthan city on the Chambal, resulting in …

Soil erosion triggers ravine expansion in Gujarat

Ravines have increased by 60-70 per cent in four districts of Gujarat in the last 4-5 decades and this threatens agriculture and livelihood there

More than 5,000 gharials born in Chambal sanctuary

Although many may not survive their first year, conservationists are delighted that their efforts have borne fruit

License to pollute : Inefficient Kota thermal power station allowed to function by Rajasthan

Earlier, the government was planning to retire two units of the plant June 30. However, protests by local politicians and the employees …

Glimpses into life in the Chambal

Chambal's unique ecology has made it home to more than 500 species of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles. More than 30 of them are in IUCN's Red …

Endangered gharials die mysterious death

Stones tell a story

Clueless in Chambal

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 7, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Forgotten people Chambal's Bor Khedi villagers are still called the criminal tribe

A 138 km pipe dream

Tilapia fish may have killed gharials in Chambal

Sand slips

Where there is a river, there is sand. Called a minor mineral, it fulfils a major requirement of the booming construction industry. No wonder, …