The muck stops here

Indian lakes are no longer serene waterbodies. Instead, they have become stinking cesspools, a result of continuous inflow of sewage and massive …

What 190 years of glacial lake outburst flood data tells us about the Hindu Kush Himalayas

Over 70% of GLOF outbreaks since 1833 have happened in last 50 years

Mining effect: Aravalli gets new lakes

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

Militancy, weed

... and sewage -- a strong political will is needed to get rid of them?

Lake agriculture

An ingenious and indigenous way of cultivation

Floating stock

Morning in Dal: commotion behind the scenes

Africa: How climate change turned two of the world’s oldest tribes into enemies

Shrinking of the world's largest desert lake has triggered a survival battle among nomadic tribes in the Kenyan-Ethiopian border

Wetlands and lakes will now be protected under single new conservation programme

National Plan for Conservation of Aquatic Eco-systems will include a national-level directive on criteria for lakes and wetlands

Mansagar's fate hangs in balance

Supreme Court to decide legality of leasing Jaipur lakefront for tourist facilities to generate funds for lake conservation

National Birds Day 2024: Over a million birds belonging to 184 species visit Odisha’s Chilika lake

Rare Pallas fish eagle spotted after a decade on Asia’s largest brackish water lagoon

A farmer & a melting glacier: Why German judges are on a trip to Peru

Judges, experts from Germany arrive in Huarez, Peru to assess risk

Lake in peril

Lakeside woes

Vadodara's lakes imperilled by reckless government decisions

Polluted lake

VENEZUELA

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 28, 2024)

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

Glacial lakes in the Himalayas: A ticking time bomb

There are 39 glacial lake and water bodies across India, China and Nepal that have recorded more than 40 per cent increase in the water spread …

Critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise return to lost lake stretches after sand mining ban: Report

Sand mining led to loss of habitat & range of the porpoise species but there is hope

Community-driven management systems offer new options to these semi-arid Gujarat villages

All the structures in these villages were constructed by Shram Daan (voluntary labour)

Wet end of 2021 leads to fewer migratory birds in Odisha’s Chilika this year

Migratory birds are wintering in cultivated farmland near Chilika because of more water in it this year, say experts  

Rising ammonia levels in West Africa linked to biomass burning

The trend was centered over Nigeria and the Southern coast 

‘Gahirmatha dolphins migrated to deep sea due to climate change’

According to January 2020 census, only 62 dolphins were spotted at Gahirmatha — down from 126 in 2019 

Land clearing isn't just about trees – it's an animal welfare issue too

More than 50 million birds, mammals and reptiles are thought to be killed each year in New South Wales and Queensland by the removal of native …

India

Major rivers in Africa ran drier than usual in 2021, finds WMO

Water storage levels in river basins up in Africa, decreased in other continents