Arabian Sea

NGT orders CWRA to meet every month for identification of wetlands

Ministries reach no consensus over Uttarakhand hydel project 

Summers get hotter, rains decline and crops fail. The conflict between people increase and migration in search of better lands and skies begin. Sounds familiar? We are not talking about Marathwada here. This is how the lives of our ancestors played out thousands of years ago.

Karnataka and TN at cross roads over Mekedatu river project

Art of Living pays environment compensation

Ramesh Mali, a farmer in his late thirties, looks at his farmland nervously. It has been 13 days since the Simhastha Maha Kumbh festival, 2016, concluded. The district administration had acquired his four bigha land (approximately 0.64 hectares) for the festival. The barricades and the concrete left on his land give us the idea that the land is not fit for farming this season.

Rapid growth in population, agriculture production, industrialisation and urbanisation have put an extreme burden on India's dwindling water resources. Water-guzzling paddy covers maximum gross area under cultivation at 44 million hectares.

Reservoir levels dip, Maharashtra urges people to celebrate dry holi

Punjab-Haryana at crossroads over the controversial Sutlej-Yamuna canal

The Mandovi river is picture perfect. She is the wide, placid river fringed by the coconut palms and dotted by the boats that we think of when we think of Goa.