Powai Lake dying

Researchers find new crustacean in Odisha’s Chilika lagoon

Parhyale odian is brown in colour and around eight millimetres in length; it has 13 pairs of legs

‘The Persian Gulf is a sensitive issue in Iran’

Amir Masoud Aghababaeian is an Iranian film-maker, originally from Isfahan and based in Tehran. He is the director of ‘Mermaid’, a …

Revival story: How Mookaneri lake became a welcome green patch for Salem

A group of concerned citizens revived a British-era lake in Salem that had turned into a garbage dump

Lessons from Bellandur: Governments should allocate more resources to monitor, protect lakes

They should focus on judicial utilisation of the water census reports and identify plans to restore the encroached and lost water bodies

No construction on Sukhatal lakebed near Naini lake, orders Uttarakhand High Court

All encroachments to be immediately removed; Administration would have done it by now if squatters were from poorer sections of the …

Landscape of Saturn’s largest moon ‘Earth-like’ but compositions different: Study

Titan, one of Saturn’s 82 orbiting moons, can be one of the most hospitable regions in solar system

‘Selous Game Reserve dam rooted in geopolitics over Nile’

Conservationist Mordecai Ogada says the decision to build a $3 billion dam on the Rufiji river that flows through the protected area is an …

Water in news on April 16

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and developments around water

Sewage pond called Mansarovar

To restore Shahpura lake, also known as Mansarovar, Bhopal Municipal Corporation must innovate its sewage treatment system

Climate change fuelling conflict in Lake Chad Basin: Report

Shrinking natural resources due to adverse weather heightening tensions, says human rights group

Saving city lakes

To counter the rapid decline of its lakes, Karnataka is creating a new authority with powers to fine and imprison encroachers and polluters. Will …

Living on the edge

The panacea in a lake

Rediscover Wular ‘sea’ to mend valley’s flood woes

Pulicat Lake threatened

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Eco-tourism museum for Maracaibo lake

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 22, 2023)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 9, 2022)

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

How some poachers became protectors of birds in villages around Chilika

Sensitisation activities by wildlife officers helped former hunters to turn a new leaf and become guardians of migratory birds visiting …

Carcass of Spinner dolphin found in Odisha

The recovery of the carcass has taken the number of dead marine animals in Odisha in the last five months to six

Odisha resumes evicting illegal prawn gherries in Chilika

29 of 97 acres of prawn culture pond area cleaned on day 1; drive to continue for few more days

Odisha village still reels under wrath of Cyclone Fani

Around 2 lakh people depend on the Chilika Lake for their livelihood, which is also home to 261 species of fish, 28 species of prawns and 34 …

Glacial lake keeps disaster managers on toes in Sikkim

Floods caused due to outbursts of glacial lakes are a matter of concern in Sikkim Himalayan region

Nigeria hunger crisis deepens, spills over into Lake Chad Basin

Some 7.1 million people are now severely food insecure across Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria