A perplexing water cycle

Agricultural areas get no rain, urban areas face water logging  

Day 3 of Indian Science Congress: technologies to curb Ganga river pollution revealed

The tanning industry is not only controlling pollutants, but it is also saving 20 per cent of the operational cost

Land subsidence is serious

India depends heavily on groundwater. But overextraction can cause the land to sink. A recent study found that signs of land subsidence are …

Glacier through drone's eye

Researchers use new technology to gather data in rugged, inaccessible Himalayan terrain

Bureaucracy on the beach

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

Scrutinising disasters

FLOOD STUDIES IN INDIA Kale, Vishwas S . Geological Society of India (Memoir; 41) . Bangalore . 1998 . 256 pp

Odd-and-even 2.0 worked but farm fires and forest fires played spoilsport, says CSE

Takes on motivated and half-baked science

Himalayan destruction

Study quantifies the impact of hydel projects on the ecology of the mountain range

India desertified

Map of India to change soon. Courtesy: climate change

Forest fire atlas to provide information realtime

Online resource reports fire within six hours

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Aligarh's groundwater at risk

Dense forests lost; increase in net green cover: Forest Survey of India 2015

While northeastern states are the most hit, Andaman & Nicobar Islands gained maximum forests

Lost battle

It is no use trying to save the rainforests, warns a new study

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Meltdown

Glacial melt's carbon connection

Dhari Devi: lost and found

Dhari Devi's idol, which had gone missing on June 17, has been brought back and placed in the new temple above the original site 

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Satellite Maps Forests

Jhum farming destroys forest cover in northeast India

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Corals, maths and satellites

A new mathematical formula will scan satellite images to study changes in coral reefs

Rebuilding cities

Forest rights and wrongs in Sonbhadra

Forcible eviction of tribals in Sonbhadra exposes forest rights faultlines