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Biodiversity
Fifty million people in Indian cities lack access to safe drinking water
Posted on 12 May, 2021 05:46 PMFifty million people in fifteen cities in India have no access to safe, affordable drinking water: UNICEF report
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Green panel clears Central Vista project
Posted on 12 May, 2021 12:28 PMGreen panel clears Central Vista projects
![Rajpath's Central Vista Avenue project (Image: Students of Master in Sustainable Architecture at Central University of Rajasthan, Counterview)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-05/central%20vista.jpg?itok=BfdKycBQ)
Mosquito fish – invaders in disguise!
Posted on 22 Mar, 2021 12:02 PMThreats to freshwater bodies in India are many and include pollution, flow modification, overexploitation and habitat degradation. Besides these, introduction of invasive alien species is a growing problem in India threatening freshwater biodiversity leading to a decline in native species and compromising the health of freshwater bodies.
What is an invasive species
![Gambusia spell doom for freshwater diversity (Image Source: Gambusia affinis, NOZO via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-03/Gambusia.jpg?itok=t4TITsum)
Online course: A primer on biodiversity and ecology of the freshwater ecosystems of the western ghats
Posted on 18 Mar, 2021 02:14 PM![PKC course](/sites/default/files/inline-images/PKC%20course.jpg)
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Dams and distress in the Himalayas!
Posted on 23 Feb, 2021 10:10 PMProliferation of hydropower development in the Himalayas is leading to extensive land use changes in the river valleys and threatening the diverse and fragile Himalayan ecosystems leading to deforestation, fragmentation, soil erosion and loss of forest biodiversity. These are a cause for serious concern for local communities, whose lives and livelihoods depend on these forests.
![100 MW Tidong-I project, Kinnaur HP (Image Source: Manu Moudgil)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-02/Kinnaur1.jpg?itok=kqtAdjZL)
Submit report on the need for clearance of National Waterway-1: NGT to MoEF
Posted on 23 Dec, 2020 02:17 PMNGT seeks report on the need for clearance of inland waterway projects in Ganga
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Women hold the key to dietary diversity
Posted on 17 Oct, 2020 04:04 PMEvidence world over shows that small scale agricultural production does very little to deal with malnutrition and food insecurity among rural poor.
![Empowering women to improve nutritional outcomes (Image Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/farm_1.jpg?itok=-i5AcI6P)
A rainbow recovery post-COVID
Posted on 08 Oct, 2020 12:27 PMThere is a disquieting hush across the world as the linkage between the planet’s health and human well-being became pronounced during the times of the pandemic. The deepening socio-economic and ecological crises caused by patterns of production and consumption are being increasingly recognised.
![The women of Deccan Development Society sanghams move towards more localized natural resource management (Image: Deccan Development Society, Facebook Page)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dds2.jpg?itok=D1qIwjw7)
Forests, the fast disappearing treasure troves of forest dwellers
Posted on 08 Oct, 2020 08:08 AMForests are disappearing at a fast rate in India.
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Poor implementation of forest rights act hurts tribals
Posted on 02 Oct, 2020 10:35 PMIn pre-colonial times, India’s forestlands were mostly under the use of the local communities. Forest policies led to centralisation in colonial times with forestland being subject to commercial over-exploitation for revenue generation purposes. This, in turn, led to land alienation of forest dwellers and an overall increase in deforestation.
![Indigenous groups that lived and helped maintain the forests for centuries have been undermined (Image: Baiga women, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 3.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/1280px-young_baiga_women_india.jpg?itok=yJRPgDVj)