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Global river deltas face critical changes; adaptation is key (Image: Stuart Rankin; Flickr Commons)

Scientists warn: Tackle global river delta changes through adaptation and policy

University of East Anglia

07 Jul 2025

3 min read

India's vanishing water bodies: The crisis of lakes, ponds, and wetlands (Image: PxHere; CC0 Public Domain)

Rivers and Lakes

What it takes to revive India’s vanishing water bodies in a changing climate

05 Jul 2025

5 min read

Need for water-centric urban planning in India (Image: Mirza; Wikimedia Commons)

Bringing rivers back into the city: Rethinking urban planning in India

27 Jun 2025

5 min read

Fishing on the river Hooghly for Hilsa gets tricky

Rivers and Lakes

Where is Hilsa? How Bengal’s fisherfolk are losing their catch and culture

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

06 Jun 2025

6 min read

Aquatic insects as key indicators of water quality (Image: Pxhere, CC0 Public Domain)

Rivers and Lakes

What aquatic insects reveal about the health of Assam’s Jatinga River

17 May 2025

5 min read

Life around Sambhar Lake: The impact of community water conservation (Image: Swapna Sarita Mohanty)

Rivers and Lakes

How community ponds are reviving life and landscapes around Rajasthan’s Sambhar Lake

Swapna Sarita Mohanty

15 May 2025

4 min read

India's wetlands under threat (Image: IWP Flickr)

Rivers and Lakes

Rejuvenating wetlands, reducing floods in India

10 Feb 2025

4 min read

Dragonfly from JP Nagar Forest, Bangalore,Karnataka

Rivers and Lakes

Bugs with benefits

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

27 Jan 2025

6 min read

In November 2020, the MoEFCC declared Kabartal the first Ramsar site in Bihar (Image: Mausam Nandan; Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0)

Rivers and Lakes

Charting the decline of Kabartal wetland

Garima Chaturvedi

26 Jan 2025

5 min read

Sources, impacts, and potential mitigation strategies for microplastic pollution in wetland ecosystems (Image: Karen Conniff; Flickr Commons; CC BY-NC 2.0)

Rivers and Lakes

Unveiling the microplastic menace in wetlands

25 Jan 2025

5 min read

Floating farms: A resilient future

Rivers and Lakes

Floating farms: A resilient future

Tanmoy Kumar Ghosh

25 Jan 2025

5 min read

Freshwater fish, under threat

Rivers and Lakes

A quarter of freshwater animals could soon become extinct!

Laurel Hodgkinson et al

14 Jan 2025

4 min read

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