Purifying the Ganga

"The story of the Ganges, from her source to the sea, from old times to new, is the story of India's civilisation ..." - Jawaharlal Nehru

When a river weeps

Reduced to being a receptacle of household and industrial wastes and victimised by lopsided development, the Yamuna, Delhi's lifeline, is crying …

Scanty rainfall, low-water levels to affect kuruvai paddy yields this year, warn Tamil Nadu farmers

Deficit rain in neighbouring Karnataka also hit Mettur dam water levels

Atmospheric rivers are hitting the Arctic more often and increasingly melting its sea ice

Sea ice loss also contributes to global warming and to extreme storms that cause economic damage well beyond the Arctic

Mined to death: an elegy for the rivers of Meghalaya

The rivers in the Jaintia Hills have turned deep blue; mines and cement factories have killed all fish and aquatic life in them

African countries need to clean up their act on industrial pollution

Enforcement of water and environmental laws must be in place to protect the environment

These 6 thermal power plants are polluting Indian rivers

African nations sign agreements to conserve water

Four African nations sign two separate agreements to rejuvenate rivers

Endangered gharials die mysterious death

Lucknow’s waterbodies perish at the hands of unregulated construction

Land records of Lucknow Nagar Nigam state the city has 964 tanks and ponds, a majority of which are unidentifiable due to reclamation

Powerful ancient earthquake likely rerouted the Ganga 2,500 years ago — and there are risks of another such event in future

If a similar magnitude earthquake strikes the Bengal basin, large-scale flooding may occur, warns study

Water pollution in rivers: A long pathway to a better tomorrow

The Ganga, perhaps the most revered river globally, is also unfortunately one of the most polluted today

One-day temperatures breach 2°C warming point for 1st time

This was another year passing by with empty promises of controlling climate change

Will we be responsible for our own extinction?

South Asia

Carnivorous algae

Polluted river

Poison alarm

Lessons for Ludhiana

Ludhiana will have to fight for its right to be clean

DUMPING BANNED

Poisoned river

Foul waters

Drying off

Polluted rivers are threatening ecosystems the worldover

Saving the river

"There is no fish"

The poisoning of India's rivers has left nothing for traditional fisherfolk