Balancing urbanisation with environmental preservation key to combat urban flooding

Approach that combines improved forecasting, flood-resilient infrastructure & sustainable urban development is imperative to ensure the …

North America’s Great Lakes, Earth’s largest freshwater store, record ‘historically low’ ice levels

Above average temperatures, coupled with diminishing blasts of Arctic air have lessened ice in the region; El Nino also responsible for this …

Parched Garden City

How Bengaluru’s water crisis is of its own making 

Bengaluru: NGT seeks responses on alleged encroachments in Pattandur Agrahara lake’s buffer zone

The case adds to the ongoing challenges faced by civic authorities and environmental activists in preserving Bengaluru’s water bodies and …

Dallaire & Rusesabagina: 2 men who witnessed the Rwandan Genocide first-hand, reflect on incidents 3 decades ago

Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired ‘Hotel Rwanda’, is today a critic of Paul Kagame; Romeo Dallaire is now a global activist, speaker, …

11.7 million persons displaced in East Africa and Great Lakes region in 2023: UN Report

Displacement is due to climate shocks, especially floods and droughts, conflict, and violence

Bengaluru only needs urgent institutional makeover of its water utilities

The Silicon Valley of India is facing a groundwater crisis

‘Humanity’s signature’: Study finds plastic pollution in world’s lakes can be worse than in oceans

Researchers sampled 38 lakes and reservoirs around the world and plastics and microplastics were found at every site, including very remote locations.

Water every other day: Bengaluru is drying up & destruction of lakes is the reason

City is now dependent on Krishna Raja Sagara reservoir, which received only 75% of its usual inflow last due to poor rainfall in River Cauvery …

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