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Mangroves of the Sunderbans

Sundarban’s aquaculture model earns global FAO honour

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

08 Nov 2025

4 min read

Modern infrastructure, like this power pylon, now stands over the rice fields, a sign of the pressures facing traditional farming.

Kashmir’s rice fields are disappearing, and so are its farming traditions

08 Nov 2025

9 min read

Sand provides habitat spaces that allow for breeding, nesting and thriving of riverine life, including species of fish and bivalves, which may be manually harvested by local people. In the Chapora river in Goa, locals gather to collect khube (clams) from the sandbanks.

Where sand shifts and rivers flow, life adapts across India’s changing lands

08 Nov 2025

8 min read

"Water is Love" shares inspiring accounts of using regenerative ecosystem design—a strategy focused on natural methods—to dramatically increase water retention in local communities, villages, and entire regions. (Image: Tamera Media)

Documentary review of Water is love: A journey of renewal and connection

29 Oct 2025

4 min read

The terraced fields of Kashmir hold drying bundles of rice. The sun casts shadows on the mountains, while the valley glows with the season’s work.

Harud: When Autumn turns Kashmir’s fields to gold

28 Oct 2025

5 min read

Groundwater contamination in mined areas

Tainted waters: Uranium mining and radiological risks in Jadugoda of Jharkhand

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

11 Oct 2025

5 min read

Coal mining can negatively affect water resources

How coal mining is contaminating groundwater in Central India

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

10 Oct 2025

5 min read

The land that remained unsubmerged after the dam was built has now transformed into an island, becoming a key tourist attraction of Dumboor Lake.

Dumboor lake: When fields sank and farmers became fishers in Tripura

10 Oct 2025

8 min read

Residents of Tilthi village take children to safer places during the floods.

Why Does Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur Flood Every Year Despite A Steady Decline In Rainfall?

Brijendra Dubey

26 Sep 2025

14 min read

Transforming barren earth into a forest in Pitchandikulam at Auroville. (Image: auroville.org)

The forest that came back: How Pitchandikulam revived land, water, and community

25 Sep 2025

8 min read

Marble slurry dumping is common in Rajasthan

CPCB releases draft guidelines on stone slurry utilisation

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

23 Sep 2025

4 min read

Groundwater gushing out of blasted aquifers in a quarry in Madihan tehsil is pumped away as waste — a routine practice across local mines.

Why Mirzapur’s Pink Sandstone Is Draining Its Water, Nature, Health and Livelihoods

Brijendra Dubey

20 Sep 2025

12 min read

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