On 21 April, during a high-level committee meeting on the rejuvenation of the Yamuna river, VK Saxena made a plea…
Palm oil has become essential to India’s food security in the past three decades, replacing other edible oils such as…
Gangtok, in Sikkim, was reeling under acute water shortage, after a cloud burst-induced landslide on April 20 damaged the city’s…
India’s first water body census, which primarily focused on small water bodies like ponds, tanks, lakes, water conservation structures, and…
“I can assure you one thing that the mountains are changing. And they are changing very fast. There is something…
India's ambitious drive to expand domestic palm oil production fails to consider the subcontinent’s changing climate, analysis shows. It’s an…
Leaders and authorities recently gathered in New York for the first UN water conference in decades. The hope was that…
Every day, Bidya* spends three to four hours getting water from the thulo dhara, or big spring, three kilometres from…
Tone Mickrow, a member of the indigenous Idu Mishmi community, lives a few hours’ drive from Etalin – the proposed…
Reusing treated wastewater in irrigation in India could have reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 1.3 million tonnes in 2021, according…
Source: PTI UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that major Himalayan rivers like the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, all…
India is targeting production of five Million Metric Tonnes (MMT) of green hydrogen by 2030. However, a discourse on its…
Over the past few months, huge chimneys have been belching thick smoke incessantly on the outskirts of Meerut city in…
Within weeks of the partial evacuation of Joshimath, an ancient pilgrim town in Uttarakhand, northern India, land started to sink…
Climate change is destabilising the freshwater supply on which all life depends. Multiple disasters in 2022 drove home the point…
It’s 8 p.m. on a rainy day in mid-October and a family of 10 from Beed has arrived in the…
As glaciers shrink and monsoon rainfall becomes more unpredictable due to climate change, uncertainty around the viability of hydropower projects…
Eternally current and always fashionable, blue jeans are among the most-worn articles of clothing on Earth, transcending time, trends, and…
Erwin Fonseca, a 47-year-old farmer lives in Goa’s Assagao, a village near the coast in the northern district of the…
Europe is facing its worst drought in at least 500 years, with two-thirds of the continent in a state of…
Every day during the summer months, Kamlawati Yadav wakes up at 6 am and walks half a kilometre to a…
The best of traditional and modern approaches can support each other to avoid droughts becoming disasters. Human-caused climate change seems…
Ten major rivers flow down from the Hindu Kush Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau. Their basins cover most of Asia,…
Scientists have identified 100 pressing research questions on climate change and water resources in the Upper Indus Basin (UIB), which…
Every day, the district hospital in Champawat needs at least 67,500 litres of water to function. But as water becomes…
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