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Climate Change
How millets can make India’s food basket climate-resilient
Posted on 02 Jul, 2019 03:38 PMNew Delhi, July 1 (India Science Wire): Increasing temperatures, changing monsoon and more frequent extreme climate events are posing a threat to food security in India.
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Digging deeper to cope with droughts
Posted on 01 Jul, 2019 09:14 PMIndia is witnessing the second driest pre-monsoon season in the last 65 years. As the country eagerly eyes the monsoon clouds, the delay so far has now widened the rain deficit to 43%.
![Coping with droughts, a challenge for farmers (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/droughts_a_0.jpg?itok=yYAVyVoF)
Economics of land degradation: India’s new environment targets
Posted on 28 Jun, 2019 09:38 AMManaging natural resources, the sustainable way
![Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar with representatives of UNCCD, IUCN and other panelists at the June 17th meeting. (Photo: DD News Hindi)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/desertificaion1.jpg?itok=RB1KmjKq)
Temperatures in India becoming more extreme
Posted on 26 Jun, 2019 03:51 PMThe frequency and severity of heatwaves have risen considerably in India. Our cities are facing periods of ‘extreme’ weather as urbanization continues to modify the landscape.
![The stretch below the Koyna dam in Satara district looks parched at the end of the summer of 2014 as the reservoirs went dry (Image: Ashwin Arun Yadav, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/summer_heat.jpg?itok=pjtkIGxb)
Twenty-six states under threat of desertification
Posted on 18 Jun, 2019 08:23 PMThe threat of desertification increases in 26 of 29 states
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From water to agriculture, well-being and beyond
Posted on 17 Jun, 2019 06:20 PMSustainable development, still an unfinished agenda
![WOTR’s holistic approach integrates environmental, social and development challenges. (Image Source: WOTR)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/wotr_sdgs.png?itok=BZyfpDaJ)
Unravelling NITI Aayog’s Composite Water Management Index: Veering to a pragmatic approach
Posted on 14 Jun, 2019 11:34 AMINTRODUCTION
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Surya Ganga: A film review
Posted on 14 Jun, 2019 10:42 AMSurya Ganga, a film directed by Valli Bindana takes an all embracing view of the energy sector, especially the social and environmental consequences of big energy projects in India. The film was released in India recently.
![Ganga's riverflow near Dhari Devi temple in Uttarakhand (Image: SuryaGanga Facebook Page)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dhari-devi-temple.jpg?itok=c9gYZMRc)
Climate change real, warns Pangi tribe
Posted on 13 Jun, 2019 02:14 PMMountain ecosystems are highly sensitive due to ecological fragility, geomorphologic instability but are blessed with vast eco biodiversity.
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