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Septuagenarian ensures Kole’s wetland status remains intact through farming

Manjula Nair 17 Feb 2021
The lamani women helping

Stranded migrant workers join citizens to revive dying ponds in Goa

Rashi Goel 15 Feb 2021

Monitoring rainfall changes in world’s wettest place

Sahana Ghosh 11 Feb 2021

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

Aditi Tandon 27 Jan 2021

Women revive ponds for water security in Bundelkhand

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 13 Jan 2021
Band-e Amir National Park is Afghanistan's first national park, located in the Bamyan Province. It is a series of six deep blue lakes separated by natural dams made of travertine, a mineral deposit.Photo: Alex Treadway/ ICIMOD Photo: Alex Treadway/ICIMOD.

[Commentary] The changing priority of ecosystem services research in the Hindu Kush Himalayas

Pratikshya Kandel, Nakul Chettri 12 Jan 2021

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

Sandhya Haribal, Tarika Vaswani 23 Dec 2020

Goa’s iron ore mining stuck at a crossroad

Supriya Vohra 22 Dec 2020

Environment ministry defers clearance to dam in M.P., part of Ken-Betwa interlinking project

Mayank Aggarwal 27 Nov 2020

Digging for soapstone in vulnerable Himalayas

Hridayesh Joshi 17 Nov 2020

Saving Darbhanga’s wetlands from encroachment and apathy

Mohd Imran Khan 4 Nov 2020

Fly ash in India: A free movement of toxicity to Bangladesh

Namrata Acharya 23 Oct 2020

Katte and Kunte: The lesser known waterbodies of Bengaluru

Mohit M. Rao 15 Oct 2020

How an engineer found his calling in conserving wetlands

Shweta Thakur Nanda 14 Oct 2020

A citizen’s movement to protect wetlands emerges in Jammu and Kashmir

Catherine Gilon 7 Oct 2020

The shepherd who digs ponds for animals

Arathi Menon 2 Oct 2020
Sakaram Pednekar, a local farmer and activist, shows silt that has been choking paddy fields in Mayem village. Photo by Supriya Vohra.

Choking the fields: Impact of mining on Goa’s paddy

Supriya Vohra 28 Sep 2020
Ragi saplings

The paradox of Chhattisgarh’s summer paddy: high-yielding but water-intensive

Manish Chandra Mishra 23 Sep 2020

To dam or not to dam? Floods in eastern Vidarbha raise the perennial debate

Nivedita Khandekar 18 Sep 2020

Chennai’s Adyar river shows signs of recovery after years of government investment

Nina Varghese 22 Aug 2020