Rivers, up close and personal

Over centuries people have learnt to live with rivers. They are part of our lives but over the past 150 years this association has weakened. A …

Myth of power

Nourisher of an ancient civilization, the Ganga could be gasping for its survival. Every few kilometres the water of its tributaries will be …

Breaking the impasse of 2013

Floods blacked out but real

Ignorance and arrogance make for good floods

Risks yours, profits mine

To flow or not to flow

News 360°-Brief

Yangtze at record low

‘MoEF violated Supreme Court order’

Ministry’s own panel says it should not have given clearances to two Uttarakhand projects

Spring of discontent

Mining in Odisha’s Khandadhar hills will dry out perennial water bodies

Can we save Ganga?

The Ganga is getting political attention. What does it take to clean the river? Down To Earth team travels to the most polluted stretch of the …

Cheated for bauxite

Andhra Pradesh circumvents all regulations to mine bauxite from tribal land

The hockey-stick curve

The problem of and solutions to climate change. The imperatives of transition on the eve of the Bali meet

Green tribunal orders closure of 34 illegal packaged drinking water units in Noida, Greater Noida

Ban on use of groundwater for construction in the two NCR cities to continue

The inviolate plot

New parameters for identifying pristine forests may make them more vulnerable

Letters

In deep water

Rivers Krishna and Mahanadi are in crisis. In the race to industrialise, states have drawn plans to exploit their last drop. For four decades, …

Water Footprint: a stumbling block?

As government mulls using water footprint as a tool to measure water consumption by farming and industrial processes, experts warn of its limitations

Science & Technology - Briefs

The past and present of rivers

Author(s): Karuna Futane We are a generation that has turned flowing fresh water rivers to rivers of sewage and garbage. We have lost rivers. …

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, …