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When elephants and humans cross paths
Posted on 30 Oct, 2017 08:37 PMElephants enjoy a special place in India. They play a significant role not only in the Indian ecological system but also in its cultural and religious landscape.
![The Asiatic Elephant (Source: Yathin S K, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/640px-elephas_maximus_bandipur.jpg?itok=jXXcNXRi)
Groundwater diviners vs science
Posted on 30 Oct, 2017 02:22 PMIn many parts of the world including India, groundwater diviners or dowsers are considered to have special powers to precisely find the site that yields groundwater for drilling borewells. Irrespective of the level of literacy, villagers and farmers are highly influenced by these groundwater diviners.
![Unscientific method of using groundwater diviners will only escalate the cost of borewell digging. (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/14628694347_4c2b172000_z.jpg?itok=mqQdJw6L)
Yamuna cleanup: NGT raps Delhi authorities
Posted on 25 Oct, 2017 10:38 AMNGT raps authorities for Yamuna cleanup in Delhi
![Children rummage through garbage near the Yamuna river. (Source: IWP Flickr Photo)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2935427348_b6fdcf3d09_z_1_1.jpg?itok=z-jNllvF)
Alien fish enters Telangana waters
Posted on 17 Oct, 2017 01:45 PMAlien fish spotted in Telangana waters after Krishna-Godavari interlinking
![Prakasam Barrage across Krishna river (Source: Subhash Chandra via Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/krishna_river_vijayawada_0.jpg?itok=btOr_Ykx)
Western Ghats: The green gold of India
Posted on 25 Sep, 2017 05:19 PMThe Western Ghats is one of the eight hotspots of biological diversity in the world and is spread across six states—Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The forests in the Western Ghats are the water towers of peninsular India.
![Western Ghats as seen from Gobichettipalayam. (Source: www.wikipedia.org)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/640px-western_ghats_gobi.jpg?itok=oJDecdes)
Ousteri lake needs help!
Posted on 19 Sep, 2017 12:04 PMOusteri lake is the largest water body in the Puducherry region.
![Ousteri lake (Source: Screenshot from the film Ousteri Lake)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ousteri_lake.jpg?itok=MyEKXX0V)
India surges ahead in science and technology
Posted on 14 Aug, 2017 08:19 PMAs India completes 70 years of its independence, let’s take a moment to introspect the contribution of science and technology to national development. Several scientific and technological developments have touched the lives of common people, though limelight is often hogged by achievements in fields like space and atomic energy.
![The blue revolution changed the way India looked at its marine wealth. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/blue_rev.jpg?itok=iiNKFHES)
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)
Playing the soil health card
Posted on 01 Aug, 2017 11:49 AMDecades of skating over environmental concerns have clearly cost us dear. The folly of pursuing better crop yields using chemical fertilisers in an indiscriminate manner has been surfacing lately. “Decades of agricultural abuse using fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides have taken its toll on us.
![The electrical conductivity of a diluted soil sample is being tested as a measure of soil salinity. (Image:CSIRO, Wikimedia Commons; CC Attribution 3.0 Unported)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/csiro_scienceimage_1740_testing_soil_salinity.jpg?itok=ZsdGRNj9)