Snatching someone's baby

Villagers in Rajasthan have revived a dried up river in the region with help of a NGO. Now, their fight is with the state government, which has …

Rivers are flowing off-course

Officials need to pull up their socks on conservation measures

Two sides of the same coin: Shrinking water bodies and urban floods

Water bodies have become even more critical in current times when cities are facing the challenge of rapid, unplanned urbanisation

Sukapaika: Death of a river

How embankments have killed Odisha’s Sukapaika river that was the lifeline of over 0.5 million people  

Gujarat’s rain-fed Fofal river dries up

This has sent villagers in Saurashtra region into a tizzy owing to the acute agrarian crisis

Damming a river

Despite vehement domestic and international opposition, China has decided to go ahead with the massive new dam project on the Yangtze

Troubled waters

A draft national policy guideline for the allocation of river waters has run into strong opposition from the states

CHINA

TWISTING FACTS

Damn these dams

While dam-busting, engineers should take care to save the entire river system from degradation

No to referendum

Raging river

Gnaws at its banks in Assam

Alarming dip

Dams affect Mekong's flow

Flowed east, flowing west

Changing course of Himalayan rivers passing through Punjab

No dukes No deluge

Floods are bad. But embarkments only make matters worse

When the Sharda flows wild

Villages on its path prepare for the recurrent misery of inundation as an apathetic government looks on

Use these maps to see how dams are destroying rivers across the world

The interative created by a non-profit illustrates shows decades of dam-building has put river basins like the Mississippi, Yangtze, Amazon and …

नालों-खालों में अतिक्रमण से रुके नदियों के रास्ते

नैनीताल हाईकोर्ट ने नाला-खालों पर अतिक्रमण के खिलाफ दायर याचिका पर सरकार व प्रशासन से जवाब मांगा। 

Nepal: A sitting duck for climate disasters

The country’s geography and ever-looming threat of climate change make it very vulnerable

Overflowing pitcher of disquiet

It is high time to start investing and investigating ecological cost of holding the Kumbh 

Now, activists seek personhood rights for a fifth river

An amicus brief was submitted to the Constitutional Court of Colombia on August 9 calling for recognition of the rights of the Anchicayá River

China and India’s border dispute is a slow-moving environmental disaster

Almost half the world’s population and 20% of its economy depend on Himalayan rivers. China and India’s …

Will the new Yamuna River Project clean up the river?

A study by the University of Virginia on cooperation between India and Spain aims at rejuvenating the Yamuna as it flows through India’s …

The demise of rivers

The ecology of rivers is irreversibly damaged through riverfront projects in India

“पूरी न्यायिक प्रक्रिया अब एक कमोडिटी बन चुकी है”

कुछ भी ऐसा अभेद्य नहीं है जो मनुष्य और नागरिक को उसकी अस्मिता सुरक्षित रखने की गारंटी दे। न्याय तो तब मिलेगा जब वह ...