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Shielding hijol, a floodplain tree, from climate impacts

Roopak Goswami 24 Jan 2023

[Commentary] Decentralised waste water treatment systems to improve water security

Somnath Pal, Charu Bhanot 23 Jan 2023
Painted storks in Kazhuveli. Photo by Bupesh Gupta.

[Commentary] Tamil Nadu needs an innovative wetland conservation strategy starting with Kazhuveli

Kannan Vaithianathan 12 Jan 2023

How an equitable model of irrigation is changing this drought-prone Maharashtra region

Supriya Vohra 30 Dec 2022

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

Supriya Vohra 20 Dec 2022
Image shows a man standing in a sugarcane field with his arm raised

India aims to go big on sugarcane-based ethanol, but water intensity of the crop throws up concerns

Supriya Vohra 14 Dec 2022

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

Sahana Ghosh, Kartik Chandramouli 9 Dec 2022
Western Ghats in Kerala. Photo by Shagil Kannur/Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists aim to study how aerosols impact rainfall in the Western Ghats, but it’s complicated

Mohit M. Rao 1 Dec 2022

Who is extracting Goa’s groundwater?

Supriya Vohra 28 Oct 2022

Government claims every household in Goa has piped water; records, residents disagree

Supriya Vohra 27 Oct 2022
An artifical water harvesting pond in Rajasthan.

[Commentary] Traditional water harvesting structures in the Thar desert are vanishing

Rohit Jindal 17 Oct 2022

Longwood Shola forest is a water source for villages in the Nilgiris, maintains biodiversity

Gretta 14 Oct 2022
Fishing on the Teesta River in Bangladesh

Experts call for more effective water sharing agreements between India and Bangladesh

Abu Siddique 27 Sep 2022
The outlet of Pal Bagh Nag. The water traverses through the lawns of many houses situated down the lane, where people also come to wash their clothes. Photo by Amir Bin Rafi.

The potential of Kashmir’s springs for climate resilience

Amir Bin Rafi 12 Sep 2022
A woman doing farming in Ghoshal, a village in Lahaul valley. Photo by Anupama Shashni, Panjab University.

Farming becomes tough in Himachal’s cold desert with changing climate and crop pattern

Vivek Gupta 1 Sep 2022

[Commentary] Scope for more nuanced reporting by media on the Brahmaputra river basin

Sumit Vij 9 Aug 2022
Civil society members at the project site with banners to protect Mattewara forest and the Sutlej river. Photo by special arrangement.

How Punjab’s civil society prevented an ecological disaster in already polluted Ludhiana

Vivek Gupta 29 Jul 2022

[Explainer] What’s causing mass fish death in India’s ponds and lakes?

Ananya Vyas 19 Jul 2022

An upcoming port in Karnataka is shrinking space for olive ridley turtles

Supriya Vohra 15 Jul 2022

A road for a port cuts through the livelihoods of fisherwomen in Uttara Kannada

Supriya Vohra 14 Jul 2022