Sunset over Udaisagar

The lake in Udaipur is under immense pressure and could die in the near future

Natural disasters: why are we always so unprepared?

Government agencies merely shift blame but take no action to plan and prepare ahead

In Srinagar's footsteps?

Unplanned urbanisation is killing lakes that have saved Raipur from floods for over 1,000 years

Eco-cabs join Chandigarh's public transport service

Plans afoot to increase demand for cycle rickshaws, reduce use of motor vehicles

Rising sea levels prompt South Florida to demand statehood

The rising levels threaten to submerge living spaces, national parks and a nuclear reactor site

Uttarakhand disaster was result of extreme rains and haphazard development: report

National Institute of Disaster Management suggests guidelines and action plans for development activities after compilation of comprehensive data

Himalayan states also face risk of glacial lake outburst floods

The region is surrounded by 8000 glacial lakes, 200 of them potentially dangerous

Sikkim at risk of devastating floods from glacial lake outbursts

State drags its feet over installing early warning systems

28 years of Earth’s surface changes on Google

Watch a city expand or a glacier shrink through a series of satellite images; see the altering landscape at four spots in India  

Mining effect: Aravalli gets new lakes

Deep digging in the mountain range for minerals has ruptured aquifers that now water mining pits

Kanwar lake: birds' paradise lost

Researchers and activists call for urgent revival of Asia’s largest freshwater oxbow lake

Sea that isn't

In just 50 years, the Aral Sea - once the fourth largest inland water body - has turned into world's newest desert 

Lake bomb ticks above Badrinath

Similar to the one that caused flash floods in Kedarnath, says National Remote Sensing Centre under ISRO; Mana village residents asked to shift

Nepal's glacial cover depleting fast, fresh water crisis predicted

Increasing number of glaciers indicates melt and fragmentation, says study

Demolish hotel being built in Udaisagar lake: HC

Developer Vardhan Enterprise forcibly acquired island in the lake from farmers to build five star hotel

What really happened in Uttarakhand

Latest theory suggests combination of rain and landslides caused the disaster

Unplanned urbanisation, encroachment blamed for Srinagar flood

Illegal structures had mushroomed on Jhelum’s banks and around lakes, clogging drainage channels

Kyrgyzstan's glaciers at risk

Ninety four per cent of the country’s glaciers may melt by the end of this century and the situation is only aggravated by gold mining in …

Lakes warming faster than oceans and India’s Chilika is no exception: global study

The water temperature of the Chilika Lake is rising at 0.39 degree Celsius per decade, as compared to average oceanic rise of 0.12 degree

Karnataka government reveals sad state of Bengaluru lakes

Thirty per cent of encroachment on lakes has been done by government agencies alone, state government press release says

Slow drowning of Tibetan grasslands fenced in by Beijing

Drastic changes are being set-off in the sensitive Tibetan region, but climate change is not the only culprit 

Citizen involvement may clean a Bengaluru lake

The initiative to rejuvenate the Kundalahalli lake will be funded by CSR contributions

230 million children are living in conflict-ridden countries worldwide: UNICEF

Exposure to violent conflicts among chief reasons affecting the survival and growth of children

Dry cleaning Hussainsagar

Telangana plans to first empty Hyderabad's great lake and then refill it with rainwater. Experts say it is nothing but a harebrained plan

Citizens submit action plan to save Bengaluru's Bellandur Lake

If local authorities give considerable attention to the proposed action plan, the situation of Bellandur Lake could change for the better