Advocate for Hyderabad's threatened lakes

Jasveen Jairath, convener of Save Our Urban Lakes, a citizens initiative for saving water bodies of Hyderabad, talks about the challenges of …

Murky waters

Climate change blues: Many lakes to turn green, brown

Air, temperature, precipitation, lake depth and elevation determine the colour, along with factors like algae and silt

Failing to freeze

Karnataka revives dying lakes: Why a decentralised governance was long overdue

The High Court of Karnataka June 15, 2021 passed an order calling for decentralised governance of lakes in the state

Lake of misery

Showcasing nature

Time bomb under water

Impure lakes

Frozen facts

UGANDA

Ultimate survivors

"Extremotolerant" bacteria make a living in the deepfreeze lakes in Antarctica

Strife on salt lake

The drying up of the Jaisamand lake

If hydrocide -- the deliberate murder of a water body -- was a cognisable offence in India, the administrators of Udaipur city would be behind …

How civil engineers lead lake rejuvenation in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka

Pollution, solid waste dumping, flooding and encroachment issue plagued Coimbatore’s Kurichi Lake and Bengaluru’s Mylsandra …

Making sport of Conservation

GREEN PROTEST

NEPAL

Beware of the developers

In its bid to get out of poverty, the Bihar government has finalised a plan to drain out lakes and convert them to farmlands. But it seems to be …

Lakes, halitosis and engineers

Bharat Lal Seth talks about his experience on his journey to Pushkar and efforts being made in lake conservation.

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 16, 2023)

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

The earliest humans swam 100,000 years ago, but swimming remains a privileged pastime

This year the OECD reported that only one in four people in low-income countries can swim

How do India’s policies and guidelines look at ‘urban lakes’?

The country has come a long way in the fight to protect these bodies of water, but much more needs to be done

Bengaluru lakes are frothing and a household item may be the cause

Scientists say excessive phosphorus from detergent, which enters the lakes along with sewage, is creating the foam

Expert panel opposes desilting of Mysuru's Kukkarahalli Lake

A two-member committee recommended that the existing polluted water should first be pumped out and then the lake should be filled with clean …