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A view of Bengaluru city from an apartment complex in Banashankari. Image by Kushagra140 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Peri-urban building rush fuels urban heat islands

Max Martin 19 May 2025
Bellandur lake seen from neighbouring residential societies. The decades following the 1970s saw rapid development and encroachment of lakes in the city. By the 2020s, only 183 choking lakes remained. Image by Amol.Gaitonde via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

The city of lakes battles a deepening water crisis

Phalguni Ranjan 25 Apr 2025
Traffic congestion on the Airport Road, in Bengaluru. Inadequate investment in public transport options has led to a dramatic increase in private cars and two-wheelers in the city. Image by Rasheed Kappan.

Bengaluru trapped in ‘tunnel vision’

Rasheed Kappan 19 Mar 2025

Closing Bengaluru parks in the afternoons deprives outdoor workers of refuge from heat

Pragathi Ravi 20 May 2024
To deal with the water crisis in Bengaluru, the government has curtailed water supplies to big users such as corporates and started penalising people for wasteful use of water.

Bengaluru rings alarm bells for urban water concerns

Max Martin 15 Apr 2024

Restrictions implemented as dwindling water sources strain water supply in parts of Bengaluru

Sweta Daga 14 Mar 2024

In the EV era, Bengaluru startups innovate for a more sustainable battery ecosystem

Manish Kumar 25 Oct 2022

As Bengaluru loses lakes, green cover, impact of urban floods takes a toll

Manish Kumar 23 Sep 2022