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Conserving Palk Bay
Posted on 28 Nov, 2017 04:04 PMThe Palk Bay is a 15,000 sq km biodiversity conglomeration nestled between the island nation of Sri Lanka and South East Peninsula India with a coastal length of 250 km on the Indian side.
![The Palk Bay (Source: GIZ)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/palk_bay.jpg?itok=hf4m_5Ho)
CRZ clears inland waterway terminal at Haldia
Posted on 28 Nov, 2017 01:55 PMGreen nod to Inland waterway terminal at Haldia
![Haldia port in West Bengal (Source: Wikimedia commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/haldia_port.png?itok=2hjP5CZq)
Study claims railways biodigesters ineffective
Posted on 28 Nov, 2017 01:50 PMRailways biodigesters are not better than septic tanks: IIT study
![A rail coach fitted with bio toilet. (Source: India Railway Info)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/1370953633942-dsc_1365_bio_toilets_are_seen_fitted_to_coach.jpg_0.jpg?itok=XVEmLBHj)
Large earthquakes imminent in the Himalayas
Posted on 28 Nov, 2017 06:28 AMA new study has reconfirmed the possibility that large earthquakes could be imminent in the Himalayas. While high levels of strain are getting constantly accumulated along the Main Himalayan Thrust region, only a fraction of it is getting released through small earthquakes of magnitudes less than five on the Richter scale.
![A view of the Himalayas. (Source: IWP Flickr photos--photo for representation only)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/8495303300_70b23d61f7_z_0.jpg?itok=Tj250JYr)
Toilet use in Uttarakhand: A mountainous issue
Posted on 23 Nov, 2017 02:36 PM“Sometimes I go for open defecation, sometimes I use the toilet. It’s not like I always have to use the toilet. When I go for work here and there, I defecate in the jungle,” says Renu from one of the remote villages in Tehri Garwal district of Uttarakhand when asked why she does not use latrines every day.
![Tanks and canals form the water supply system in a remote Uttarakhand village. (Image source: Chicu Lokgariwar)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/water_supply_uttarakhand.jpg?itok=Xpm9y6Bi)
Decoding Indian monsoon
Posted on 21 Nov, 2017 12:03 PMChanges in weather are best reflected in the annual season of monsoons. Now a team of Indian researchers has recreated a continuous history of the Indian monsoon, providing new insights into forces governing it.
![New findings on Indian monsoon.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/31618111236_127155125f_z.jpg?itok=Ztui9EU0)
Where there are no sewers: The toilet cleaners of Lucknow
Posted on 20 Nov, 2017 03:41 PMNovember 19th is World Toilet Day. Enormous progress has been made in the global effort to provide safe and affordable toilets for the world's poorest citizens since World Toilet Day was first declared in 2001.
![The toilet cleaners of Lucknow (Image source: CS Sharada Prasad)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/00_csp1654.jpg?itok=5ippc9P1)
India ranks low on sanitation index: Report
Posted on 20 Nov, 2017 02:20 PMIndia has the highest number of people without access to toilets: Report
![Toilets in India (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/women_and_toilets_2_0.jpg?itok=ys3WWDcb)
Maharashtra to pay Rs 100 crore for river restoration
Posted on 20 Nov, 2017 01:54 PMSC orders Maharashtra government to pay Rs 100 crore for restoration of Ulhas and Waldhuni rivers
![A filthy river in Maharashtra. (Source: IWP photos via Rohit Sharma and Arpita Bhagat)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/image_3_0_0.jpg?itok=PcTf6jtu)
Solar mamas to light up their homes
Posted on 20 Nov, 2017 11:19 AMIn her mid-30s, Lino Lameko works as an assistant at the office of the national women’s council in Funafuti, the capital of Tuvalu. She has come all the way from the Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean to Tilonia, a small village located in Ajmer in Rajasthan to become a “barefoot solar engineer”.
![Over 1000 women from all over the world have come to Barefoot College to become barefoot solar engineers. (Image: Barefoot College)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/over_1000_women_from_all_over_the_world_have_come_here_to_train_as_barefoot_solar_engineers.jpg?itok=5yCpps7U)