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Khejri trees are declining in the Thar desert. Image by Nirmal Verma/Mongabay.

A beloved ‘tree of life’ is vanishing from an already scarce desert

Vishal Kumar Jain 11 Sep 2025
The construction of the Mandal dam began in the 1970s, and was left unfinished. It is now being revived, and met with protests from local communities who are being denied the jobs, land titles and compensation promised. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla/Mongabay.

A dam that drowned dreams but never delivered water

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 1 Aug 2025
Solar water pumps in Nepal. Representative image by Prabuddha Raj via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Running on sunshine but running out of water

Hanan Zaffar, Jyoti Thakur 19 Jun 2025

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

Anupama Chandrasekaran 9 Apr 2025

[Explainer] What is micro irrigation?

Vandana K. 10 Sep 2024

From paddy to palm oil: Telangana focuses on water intensive crops

Manish Kumar 6 Dec 2022

Solar power helps farmers irrigate fields in water-scarce Bastar

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 15 Nov 2021
Women-led group take care solar pumps after receiving them from the government. Photo by Srikant Chaudhary

Jharkhand’s solar pump scheme aims to improve lives of farmers by increasing irrigation potential

Srikant Chaudhary 4 Oct 2021

With water-saving sugarcane cultivation, conserved water goes to river

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 9 Aug 2021

Assam most vulnerable to climate change in Indian Himalayan region: study

Mayank Aggarwal 21 Dec 2018

Fracking or food: The oncoming dilemma for water-stressed agricultural areas

Sahana Ghosh 10 Jul 2018