India’s water crisis is usually told as a story of scarcity. Dry wells, shrinking rivers, and desperate searches for new ...

The word Harud, meaning “autumn” in Kashmiri, marks more than a change in season; it reflects a way of life. From September to mid-October, farming families, neighbours, and local labourers come ...

The world has always gravitated towards the sea. Ports built trade, rivers carried fertile soil to the coast, and cities rose where land met water. Today nearly ...

Between the tides and the city’s sprawl, Mumbai’s mangroves stand as silent sentinels shielding its shores from storms, filtering its waters, and anchoring life along its creeks. Yet beneath their ...

India faces a silent crisis as cities and farms sink due to the shifting of rock layers and soil in the ground below. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) offers real-time data to act on.

Dr Priyanka Jamwal talks about a science-based tool that integrates ecology, benchmarks, and nature-based solutions to guide sustainable restoration of India’s polluted urban lakes. Nature-based ...

India’s great river deltas have long been seen as landscapes of abundance. A river delta is a triangular lobular landform created when rivers empty their water ...

India’s rural development push is entering a more demanding phase. The Union Budget 2026–27 makes clear that building infrastructure is no longer the main challenge. The harder task now is to keep ...

Water scarcity has long been discussed as a crisis waiting to arrive. The latest global scientific assessment suggests that moment may already have passed. In J ...

Across India’s cities, plumbers like Khaled work behind the scenes to keep water systems from collapsing. Their daily improvisations reveal the fragile balance between infrastructure, governance, and ...

Declining groundwater levels and growing neglect of traditional water sources in rural Uttar Pradesh have deepened water scarcity. Their disappearance has also reshaped village life, weakening social ...