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Ecology and Environment
Mangroves: The green coast guard
Posted on 23 Aug, 2017 07:09 PMIn our effort to make space for infrastructural developments, India's green cover is declining at an alarming rate. The overall mangrove cover in the country stands at 4,740 sq. km., which is 0.14 sq. km of India’s overall geographical area.
![Mangrove nursery (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/mangrove_nursery_0.jpg?itok=bf68a-Aa)
Heavy downpour halts lives
Posted on 23 Aug, 2017 04:00 PMThe eastern and the northeastern parts of the country including states like Assam, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh and West Bengal are witnessing heavy downpour and floods for the last few weeks. The rain is wreaking havoc with rivers breaching embankments and flooding roads and destroying houses and bridges.
![A man wades through knee-deep water with his belongings. (Source: 101Reporters)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img_0470.jpg?itok=Juj9XBqF)
UP's religious smart city plan gets rejected
Posted on 22 Aug, 2017 09:55 PMCommittee rejects UP's plan for a religious hi-tech smart city
![Ganga at Garhmukteshwar (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/6171494645_920f644b53_z_3.jpg?itok=zGXjKbSX)
Floods ravage Bihar, Northeast
Posted on 18 Aug, 2017 10:30 AMTorrential downpour in the eastern part of the country over the past week has resulted in many rivers flowing above the danger level and causing flood along their course. While the flood situation in Assam is said to be the worst in 13 years, its neighbouring states, Arunachal Pradesh and Bihar are also submerged.
![Parts of Gopalganj district in Bihar remain submerged. (Photo by Manoj Pandey)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rsz_parts_of_gopalganj_district_are_submerged_since_two_days_-_picture_courtesy_-_manoj_pandey_.jpg?itok=-d13pHUy)
Budgeting every water cup
Posted on 17 Aug, 2017 04:10 PMTill about a year ago, 52-year-old Kisan Jite would often wake up to his wife Sarla and other village women squabbling over who would fill their buckets first from the only well in Golegaon village.
![The gram panchayat office of the Golegaon village where all the action takes place. (Source: 101Reporters)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rsz_watercup1.jpg?itok=c37UZOgK)
Why East Kolkata Wetlands needs to be protected
Posted on 17 Aug, 2017 12:27 PMIncreasingly in both academic and social sectors, sustainable development goals (SDGs) are being quoted often and set as targets.
![Five-star hotels under construction backdrop the Dhapa vegetable patch.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/image_3_2.jpg?itok=e983HCOA)
Maintain 15-20 pc environmental flow in rivers: NGT
Posted on 16 Aug, 2017 05:53 AMNGT has ordered states to maintain environmental flow of 15-20 percent in rivers
![Ganga river at Kaudiyala (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/6172023818_988b81c090_b_3_0.jpg?itok=PUeHIWBx)
MoEF for dropping seven hydel projects in Arunachal
Posted on 11 Aug, 2017 10:19 AMEnvironment ministry recommends dropping seven hydel projects in Arunachal Pradesh
![Pristine Arunachal Pradesh (Source: Wikimedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/800px-river_in_east_siang_district_arunachal_pradesh_1.jpg?itok=Scn9fDFN)
Minimising bycatch
Posted on 09 Aug, 2017 01:46 PMFishing trawlers symbolise industrial-scale fishing which is lucrative in the present day market. These machines that catch fish in huge numbers are said to be a boon to the sector’s economy but a closer look at the figures show that these modes of mass fishing may not be as efficient as they may seem to appear.
![Shrimp bycatch (Image source:Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/1200px-shrimp_bycatch_heist.jpg?itok=x1gd6I9G)
Bad times at Baddi
Posted on 09 Aug, 2017 05:59 AMWhen Satya Devi was a child, the open well near her house in the village of Malku Majra was the water source for the household. She reminisces, “The water was clean and soft. The well would never go dry.
![The state pollution control board insists that none of the factories in the area allow any pollutants to be discharged into the environment. The state of the surface water bodies, however, belies this statement.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/35804022181_77d90015e4_z.jpg?itok=Kq97ip38)