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Meet the man conserving otters in Maharashtra’s Western Ghats

Neha Jain 11 Feb 2021

Chamoli floods trigger concerns against rapid development in the Himalayan region

Hridayesh Joshi, Mayank Aggarwal 10 Feb 2021

[Explainer] What are wetlands and why do we need to protect them?

Aditi Tandon 27 Jan 2021

Over 214,000 trees to make way for Ujh hydropower project in J&K

Mayank Aggarwal 26 Jan 2021
Aerial views of Brahmaputra river. Photo by Ashwin Kumar/Wikimedia commons.

Ancient tree rings shed light on Brahmaputra’s flood risk

Sahana Ghosh 14 Jan 2021

[Commentary] Cost-effective technology options for Faecal Sludge Management

Sandhya Haribal, Tarika Vaswani 23 Dec 2020

Biodiversity threats from ghost fishing gear in the Ganga

Sahana Ghosh 18 Dec 2020

Story of a river bed, a geological marvel and community pride

Manjula Nair 10 Dec 2020

Bauxite mining threatens India’s lone wolf sanctuary and an interstate river

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 9 Dec 2020

Gharials bounce back in Punjab but the real test is breeding

Vivek Gupta 7 Dec 2020
Aditi Deodhar, founder-director of Jeevitnadi, empowers and mobilises citizens to conserve urban rivers of Pune such as the Mutha river, which has been plagued by pollution and untreated sewage. Illustration by Rohan Dahotre.

People power to clean up Pune river, bit by bit

Himanshu Nitnaware 2 Dec 2020

Digging for soapstone in vulnerable Himalayas

Hridayesh Joshi 17 Nov 2020

[Video] Rampant sand mining damaging Yamuna’s ecology

Hridayesh Joshi 16 Nov 2020
Youth from the Kadar community in Athirapilly fishing in a tributary. Photo credit by Aathira Perinchery.

Over 1,800 rainforest trees to be axed for hydropower project near proposed Athirapilly dam

Aathira Perinchery 12 Nov 2020

Saving Darbhanga’s wetlands from encroachment and apathy

Mohd Imran Khan 4 Nov 2020
Bembatty village where the upper reservoir of the Sillahalla hydroelectric project is expected to be located. Photo by Mathimaran.

Concerns over Sillahalla hydroelectric project coming up in the ecosensitive Nilgiris

K.A. Shaji 3 Nov 2020

[Photos] Erosion along Ganga’s riverbanks in West Bengal finds new victims

Tanmoy Bhaduri 2 Nov 2020

Sankar and his community dig canals to save Muthupet’s mangroves

Ankita Sengupta 21 Oct 2020

[Video] In conversation with Rahul Ram: Exploring the confluence of music and environment

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 16 Oct 2020

Bodh fish, the ‘shark of Bastar,’ threatened by a proposed hydropower project

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 9 Oct 2020