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Farming families in India’s largest state are being pushed into debt, distress and migration

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 17 Apr 2025

An arid Indian state’s water gains risk drying up under cash crop pressures

Anupama Chandrasekaran 9 Apr 2025

Your Environment This Week: Social sciences for conservation, Nuanced human-elephant interactions and Tarantulas

Team Mongabay India 10 Jan 2025
A government survey reveals nearly a fifth of collected samples exceed permissible pollutant limits, including nitrates and significant quantities of radioactive uranium. Image by SuSanA Secretariat via Flickr (CC-BY-2.0).

Government report highlights groundwater contamination across India

Esha Lohia 8 Jan 2025
Namdeo Sahebrao Kakode, secretary of Borgaon Math’s village development committee, says applying silt has transformed their crops from short to healthy. Image by Nidhi Jamwal.

Desilting tanks for improving water security and soil health

Nidhi Jamwal 25 Sep 2024

Innovative air-to-water tech using liquid desiccant makes affordable, renewable water

Arathi Menon 13 Aug 2024

Trust, cost go greater depths to sustain unscientific water divining practice

Simrin Sirur 12 Aug 2024
Rapid urbanisation, population growth, tourism, and climate change have exacerbated stress on groundwater resources in the Ladakh region. Image by Eldhojose19 via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0).

Rapid urbanisation and climate change threaten groundwater resources in Ladakh, says study

Hirra Azmat 11 Jul 2024
View of Lakshadweep taken during ISS Expedition 38. Image ISS038-E-45155 courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center.

[Commentary] Complexities of freshwater availability and tourism growth in Lakshadweep

Salahudheen 6 May 2024

[Commentary] The Atal Bhujal Yojana, meant to address groundwater depletion, is missing a key part of water flows

Veena Srinivasan and Partik Kumar 20 Oct 2023
One of the many lakes in Kolar that are being filled with Bengaluru's wastewater, Kolaramma lake in Kolar district is seen here covered in water hyacinth. Photo sourced from Anjaneya Reddy.

Should rural India drink urban wastewater?

Arathi Menon 28 Aug 2023

Drought conditions force Marathwada farmers to migrate for work as sugarcane cutters

Supriya Vohra 20 Dec 2022

[Podcast] Imprints: Lake and archive diving with Atreyee Bhattacharya

Sahana Ghosh and Kartik Chandramouli 9 Dec 2022

Who is extracting Goa’s groundwater?

Supriya Vohra 28 Oct 2022

[Video] Can a waste-to-energy plant address piling concerns from a landfill site?

Kundan Pandey, Video by Shaz Syed 1 Jul 2022

Lucknow, a case study for permanently disappearing aquifers in north India

Monika Mondal 16 Jun 2022

Accelerating rate of groundwater depletion in Punjab, worries farmers and experts

Vivek Gupta 14 Jun 2022

[Commentary] Water tariff could be a tool to improve water use efficiency in domestic sector

Apoorva Bamal, Niyati Seth 7 Jun 2022
Water being pumped through tubewells is also contaminated. Photo by Omkar Singh.

Industries dump chemicals into fields, pollute Ajnar river in Madhya Pradesh

Anil Kumar Tiwari 3 Jun 2022
A farmer showing how continuous waterlogging has turned his land barren at Imlota village of Charkhi Dadri district in Haryana. Photo by Sat Singh.

Waterlogging pushes Haryana farmers to sell agricultural land, take up odd jobs

Sat Singh 27 Apr 2022