Maharashtra groundwater bill gets presidential nod

Setting up regulatory authority, notification of overexploited areas and developing watershed development plans to get top priority

COSTA RICA

Australia to revive Murray-Darling basin

Bishops for Amazon

In Court

Budget 2015 gives drought-hit Marathwada a miss

Proposed PPP in irrigation may prove disastrous as control of water may pass into private hands

Iraq wants treaty on sharing river waters

Garabi hydel project criticized

Victoria agrees to central control over rivers

Will Narayan Rane’s loss in Maharashtra mean better protection for Western Ghats?

Congress leader who contested Assembly elections from Kudal in Sindhudurg district is known to be a key player in the mining lobby in the entire …

PacifiCorp Energy flays study on salmon migration

POSCO faces fresh litigation, protest

Uncertainty looms over its $12 billion steel plant project in Odisha

POSCO villages resist land acquisition by Odisha government

Despite protests administration demolishes 37 betel gardens on the forestland. Land acquistion put on hold till June 17

Science and Technology - Briefs

Mahan at all costs

How government bent all rules to ensure Mahan forest in Madhya Pradesh goes to Essar and Hindalco for mining coal

The past and present of rivers

Author(s): Karuna Futane We are a generation that has turned flowing fresh water rivers to rivers of sewage and garbage. We have lost rivers. …

No dukes No deluge

Floods are bad. But embarkments only make matters worse

The prosperous are the ‘real’ polluters

Economic growth takes a toll on the environment

Shrinking homes

The population of river dolphin has declined by 50 per cent since Independence

Coming back to life

When villages work with each other to regenerate the environment, there are unexpected blessings. Sometimes, they are as big as a river

To hell and Back

How TBS helped communities revive the rural environment

Melting into thin air

The 25-km long Gangotri glacier, fountainhead of the Ganga, is receding at an average 18 metres annually

No free lunch for water projects

The concept of environmental flow appears unscientific, dangerous too

Need to save Goa's lifelines

Goa's water security depends on nine rivers considered to be the state's economic veins

Dwindling tree cover dilates storm havoc

Cyclones that traverse the Indian peninsula from the Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea are a common enough feature. But over the past few years, …