Spring in a box
A village in Maharashtra solves its water crisis by building underground boxes to tap spring water
The Northeast's power burden
The centrality of the Northeast to India's ambitious national electrification plan cannot be overstated, since the region will be required to …
Angola’s peatlands trap carbon and clean the region’s water — how we mapped this newly found landscape
High quality peatland extent data are only available for a small selection of countries and regions
Scrutinising disasters
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Flood on hilltop
Unplanned development is leading to floods in Lonavala. This can stop if the municipality declares it a hill station
Rivulet resurrected in 45 days
Thousands of people working under NREGS bring a 38 km stream back from the dead in Uttar Pradesh
‘Scrap 24 dams, save Ganga’
Wildlife Institute of India report warns against ecological impact of dams in Uttarakhand
10 reasons why Sri Sri Ravishankar should not be conducting the World Culture Festival on the Yamuna floodplain
The activity cannot be termed as a benign activity and shall have a permanent footprint on the floodplain, say experts
Cauvery gouged
Ten years after the Tamil Nadu government took over sand mining from private players, illegalities continue, harming agriculture and draining the …
Fancy wall for Sundarbans
Government starts building massive embankments on the fragile delta using untested technology. Experts say the project benefits contractors, …
Why Chennai floods are a man-made disaster
An analysis shows that in just four decades, urbanisation in the city increased by almost 20 times
Springing back to life
Two villages in Uttarakhand take lessons in hydrogeology to revive dry springs, end water conflict
Land over nature
Cities are expanding indiscriminately across the globe, at the cost of rich biodiversity
Expert panel report on de-watering for real estate projects in Noida upsets green activists
Report submitted by Noida authority to National Green Tribunal specifically justifies de-watering for Supertech Supernova project
Storehouse of water
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Yours unilaterally
Nepal suffers as India builds dykes along a trans-border river without informing the neighbour
Passive neighbour
India remains indifferent as China builds dams on upper reaches of Brahmaputra
Under threat
A proposed dam is set to change the landscape in the Pindar ghati--host to the last free flowing tributary of the Alaknanda. Bharat Lal Seth …
Prayers for a little
Rivers’ flows must be maintained to protect the services they provide, but India has no legislation
Why better sewage management in Chennai will help fight floods
Down To Earth Editor Sunita Narain explains how the city's three rivers and 320 tanks and lakes that worked as flood barriers are used mostly for …
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 …
‘MoEF violated Supreme Court order’
Ministry’s own panel says it should not have given clearances to two Uttarakhand projects
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 …
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
Tibetan landscape may soon disappear
In the 1980s, when very few people visited Tibet, Michael Buckley, an Australian settled in Canada, wrote the first Lonely Planet guide to the …