India has lost over 1,500 sq km of land to ‘catastrophic’ soil erosion

New research finds Assam the worst affected, lost close to 300 square kilometres of topsoil

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Slip-sliding away

Lasers to track erosion

Never prevent a river

‘No govt support’, villagers of Majuli river island build bamboo embankment to prevent erosion

The flood prevention measures by the state of inferior quality 

The nutty enricher

Migration sounding alarm bells in the West

Badkhal lake dries up

SOUTH AFRICA

Losing ground

High rates of soil erosion trouble India

Ganga on the road

Fruitful passion

One man has helped transform a barren valley in Jammu into a veritiligle orchard

Farmers panic

United Nations

Land degradation makes containing floods and droughts tough

Water erosion accounts for more than 50 per cent of total degraded area in India

Trees against deserts

Grow more trees around fields and along waterbodies to prevent desertification

Erosion by Ganga threatens India’s largest botanical garden in Howrah

Agencies cite fund crunch, seek central assistance   

Personality clashes lead to internal schisms

DESTRUCTIVE DAM

A sorry state, indeed!

Floodplain loss: Basins of Irrawaddy, Tapi, Indus, Cauvery rivers flowing through India altered most due to human activities

Asia lost the biggest area of floodplains among all continents from 1992-2019

Green business

Locust repellents

The insect dislikes crops rich in nitrogen and proteins

Measure of tolerance

New way to calculate capacity of soil to resist erosion