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Lights out to mark the Earth Hour
Posted on 26 Mar, 2021 04:25 PMEarth Hour is observed on the last Saturday of March each year in almost all countries to raise people’s awareness of natural disasters due
![Through this year’s theme, awareness is being raised about the crisis of nature loss, climate change and global warming (Image: SomeCG, Pixabay)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-03/earth%20hour.jpg?itok=9dSoSxbI)
Water footprint of food and cooking fuel
Posted on 26 Mar, 2021 02:33 PMWater is a basic resource for food and fuelwood production. In general, people in rural areas of India consume carbohydrate-rich staples with small amounts of animal foods. They mostly depend upon fuelwood for cooking.
![Madhya Pradesh has the largest blue water footprint for food (334 m3/cap/year) and the blue water footprint from wheat contributes 87%. (Image: Pixabay)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-03/country-2178853_1920.jpg?itok=92h7PP8T)
Clean fuel choices of urban India’s poor
Posted on 17 Mar, 2021 03:40 PMWith increased urbanisation, India is experiencing acute air pollution in its urban centres.
![PMUY should expand its reach to urban slum households, given that there are still households without LPG connections. (Image: Adam Cohn, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-03/old-woman-adam-cohn.jpg?itok=aeGCetao)
India now has 41 Ramsar sites, with two more wetlands added to the list
Posted on 19 Nov, 2020 06:21 AMTwo more wetlands added to Ramsar sites
![Lonar Sarovar lake Maharastra (Source: Wikipedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2020-11/Lonar_Sarovar_lake_Maharastra.jpg?itok=H5sszDVx)
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)
Parliamentary committee expresses disappointment over slow pace of Namami Gange
Posted on 19 Dec, 2019 10:31 AMPanel expresses displeasure over slow pace of Namami Gange
![The Ganga at Varanasi (Source: India Water Portal Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/9416529216_7b33145664_z_2_0_0_0.jpg?itok=uejsK4AI)
Locals reject social impact assessment report of Luhri II hydropower project
Posted on 11 Dec, 2019 12:05 PMLocals say impact assessment report does not accurately represent the real impact of Luhri II hydropower project
![Sutlej river in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh (Image source: Sanyam Bahga, Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/640px-kinnaur_392_1_0.jpg?itok=mfzMWJ6O)
Stop farming on Yamuna floodplains by 2020: NGT to DDA
Posted on 17 Sep, 2019 05:26 PMNGT orders DDA to ensure farming on the Yamuna floodplains is stopped by 2020
![Yamuna river in Delhi (Source: Sudhanshu Malhotra via IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2935403870_3529afab93_z_1_1.jpg?itok=Ggt3bLYv)
Water Future Conference: Towards a Sustainable Future
Posted on 22 Jul, 2019 11:56 AMA Future Earth Conference
Opening new frontiers in water system diagnostics and innovative solutions to mitigate the 21st-century global water crisis