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!

Desertification in India: Mining erodes soil, water table dips in Jharkhand

Water table in Barkitand village of Giridih district has fallen from 8 metre below the ground level in 2013 to about 10 m in 2017

Integrating trees in African agricultural landscapes

The challenge for policy makers is how to increase agricultural productivity without expanding into forestlands and with minimal use of external …

The new culprit of global warming

Though the world's attention is focussed on the degradation of tropical forests as a major contributor to global warming, the depletion of boreal …

Himalayan plunder

PEOPLE OF THE HIMALAYAS: ECOLOGY, CULTURE, DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE· Guest Editor: K C Mahanta·Kamla Raj Publishers and Printers, New …

New method to recognise erosion gullies on satellite photos

Organic matters

Soil carbon can foretell soil health

North India Deluge 2023: Heavy rains in Nepal cause erosion downstream in Bihar; hundreds displaced

Soil erosion due to ascending water levels in the Koshi, Mahananda and Ganga has impacted hundreds in Bihar’s Supaul, Khagaria, Katihar, …

World Soil Day: A third of it is degraded. Here’s the solution countries should adopt

Soil erosion mitigation through the application of sustainable soil management is critical for protecting our soil

Kodagu landslides not a natural disaster

Here’s an account of the situation in disaster-hit Kodagu in Karnataka by a geologist who volunteered for the relief work

Floods affect over 30,000 in Assam

Parts of Manas National Park, a world heritage site, have also been submerged by the flood water

Golf under attack

In response to ecologists up in arms against the golf courses mushrooming all over the world, designers are now coming up with eco-friendly courses.

God's own country

This is a true story of the beautiful state of Kerala, of its famed backwaters and wetlands, of its rain-swept Western Ghats. It also speaks of …

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

World’s beaches are changing because of climate change — green thinking is needed to save them

A two-metre increase in sea levels by 2100 may lead to forced migration of between 72 million and 187 million people  

Revegetation on Loess Plateau putting pressure on water resources

Expansion of vegetation cover in areas marked by limited water availability creates “conflicting demands for water between the ecosystem …

Don’t tame the Brahmaputra, train it

A worried Assam government recently asked river hydraulic engineer NAYAN SHARMA of IIT Roorkee to devise ways to contain the mighty river that …

On shifting sands

Thousands in Bihar prepare to migrate, again, as the Kosi changes course

Locust repellents

The insect dislikes crops rich in nitrogen and proteins

Measure of tolerance

New way to calculate capacity of soil to resist erosion

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