Assam’s Majuli island is dotted with an elaborate network of wetlands of varying sizes and characteristics, a marker of the…
The Baghjan oil well blowout of 2020 severely affected the biodiversity, fish populations and several livelihoods dependent on the Maguri…
The state of Assam in northeastern India has one of the highest incidences of human-elephant conflict in the country, with…
Budhari Goyari is busy reeling cocoons of ‘eri’ silk in the courtyard of her two-room house in Bhaoragwaja village, in…
In Assam, Bohag Bihu and the kopou phool — the Assamese new year and the foxtail orchid — have an…
Rajiv Mahanta reminisces about his childhood memories of fishing in the Sumdiri river, about 200-300 metres from his home in…
Source: PTI A controversy has erupted in Assam after “religious symbols” were seen in laser show projections at the Ahom…
Two summers have gone by since Taslima* and her classmates last saw the fans in their classroom stir the air.…
Four oil and gas pipelines being laid through protected forests in Assam could be “disastrous” for wildlife, environmentalists have told…
(Source: PTI) Rebuilding homes, besides helping children and livestock adjust to a new place, as floods turn them into refugees…
Protests were held in Assam's capital Guwahati and Lakhimpur on Tuesday after the collapse of a temporary guard wall in…
Himanshu Pegu, a resident of Silchar in India’s northeastern Assam state, is one of many forced to live in a…
The first half of 2022 has seen South Asia hit by both severe heatwaves and heavy flooding. The latest flashpoints…
Every year, around this time, life comes to a complete standstill in Assam, pounded by relentless rain and subsequent landslides…
On the edge of the National Highway 31 in Assam, where floodwater had completely submerged the paddy fields, 43-year-old Rahisuddin…
Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5…
The flood situation in the northeast took a turn for the worse on Friday as incessant rainfall pounded parts of…
Opposition parties in Assam on Monday decried both the bulldozing of houses of villagers allegedly involved in burning down a…
Habidul Islam plans to never move away again from the place where he grew up. He is from the village…
On the night of 15 December 2021, Suken Gayari got the shock of his life. The elderly resident of Daurebari…
Hemram Pegu has been forced to rebuild his home at least eight times in the past decade, shifting it a…
Songs have always chronicled social, political, historic, geographical, cultural and environmental change. Many popular singers have responded to the climate…
Over the past three decades, the severity of both droughts and floods has increased in the state of Assam. In…
Jatin Gayary beams with joy every time he sees a tiger in Manas National Park in the foothills of the…
Ratan Pathuri watches floodwater swirl below his veranda. The swollen Dhansiri River has inundated Pathuri’s village, Nikori, in the district…
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