When Books Sink Underwater In Assam
Assam’s annual floods pose a challenge for students commuting to schools and cause damage to…
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Schools Feel The Heat As Closures Rise Due To Extreme Weather Events
Schools in India have seen increasing disruptions due to extreme weather events, over the last…
The Shrinking Wetlands Of Majuli & Their Fight For Survival
Assam’s Majuli island is dotted with an elaborate network of wetlands of varying sizes and…
3 Years After An Oil Well Blowout, This Assam Wetland Copes Slowly
The Baghjan oil well blowout of 2020 severely affected the biodiversity, fish populations and several…
Rice As A Peace Offering In Human-Elephant Conflict Capital Assam
The state of Assam in northeastern India has one of the highest incidences of human-elephant…
Solar-Powered Looms Boost Income And Safety For Silk Weavers
Budhari Goyari is busy reeling cocoons of ‘eri’ silk in the courtyard of her two-room…
Why Early Blooming Of Orchids In North-East Is Not Good News
In Assam, Bohag Bihu and the kopou phool — the Assamese new year and the…
Assam Town Treats 40 Yrs Of Legacy Waste In Just Nine Months
Rajiv Mahanta reminisces about his childhood memories of fishing in the Sumdiri river, about 200-300…
Row Over ‘Religious Symbols’ At Laser Show In Assam’s Rang Ghar
Source: PTI A controversy has erupted in Assam after “religious symbols” were seen in laser…
Assam’s Rural Solar Scheme Fails To Keep The Lights On
Two summers have gone by since Taslima* and her classmates last saw the fans in…
New Pipelines Will Fragment Assam’s Protected Forests: Environmentalists
Four oil and gas pipelines being laid through protected forests in Assam could be “disastrous”…
Floods Come And Go But Problems Remain For Assam’s Rural Women
(Source: PTI) Rebuilding homes, besides helping children and livestock adjust to a new place, as…
Protests Erupt In Assam After Flooding Event At NHPC Project
Protests were held in Assam’s capital Guwahati and Lakhimpur on Tuesday after the collapse of…
Traditional Building Techniques Could Mitigate Flood Damage In Assam
Himanshu Pegu, a resident of Silchar in India’s northeastern Assam state, is one of many…
Stalled Monsoon Behind Devastating Floods In NE India, B’desh
The first half of 2022 has seen South Asia hit by both severe heatwaves and…
Climate Change, Poor Planning Behind Assam’s Mounting Flood Ferocity
Every year, around this time, life comes to a complete standstill in Assam, pounded by…
Floods In Assam Lead To Massive Destruction, Cripple Life
On the edge of the National Highway 31 in Assam, where floodwater had completely submerged…
Floods: Millions Marooned In India, B’desh
Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled…
Flood Situation Critical In Assam, Other States
The flood situation in the northeast took a turn for the worse on Friday as…
Assam: Opposition Decries Bulldozer ‘Revenge’
Opposition parties in Assam on Monday decried both the bulldozing of houses of villagers allegedly…
Assam: Despite Repeated Disasters, Many Have No Desire To Migrate
Habidul Islam plans to never move away again from the place where he grew up….
Black Bears Stray From Assam National Park In Unprecedented Numbers
On the night of 15 December 2021, Suken Gayari got the shock of his life….
Floods Eat Away At Assam’s Indigenous Land
Hemram Pegu has been forced to rebuild his home at least eight times in the…
The Lament Of The Brahmaputra Riverbank
Songs have always chronicled social, political, historic, geographical, cultural and environmental change. Many popular singers…
In Assam, Village Committees Lead The Way During Floods
Over the past three decades, the severity of both droughts and floods has increased in…