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242Why We Need A New Perspective On Rivers
People have tended to see rivers merely as cubic metres of water to be dammed and diverted, but rivers need to be...
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Delhi Third In The List Of Cities Reporting Most Deaths Due To Air Pollution : Study
Delhi is batting severe case of air pollution. As the city struggles to get fresh air for it’s citizens a study had...
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Eight Countries Come Together To Protect Bay Of Bengal
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has just approved a grant of USD 15 million for the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem...
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Official Recognition To India’s Water Crisis Sparks Debate
India’s water crisis is now official. The government’s own think tank the National Institution for the Transformation of India (NITI) Aayog –...
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Another year, another mismanaged flood response in Assam And North East
Kamalakhya Dey Purkaystha, a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly, led the boat that carried the bodies of Mishu Malakar and Kulendra...
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Looming Severe Water Crisis in India
India is suffering from the worst water crisis in its history and millions of lives and livelihoods are under threat as the...
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Delhi’s Groundwater Plummets
As the summer season begins in the Indian subcontinent, Delhi’s groundwater crisis has become severe. Groundwater levels have been dropping for years...
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Community-led Strategies Offer Hope For East Himalayan Biodiversity
The Singchung Bugun Village Community Reserve, an NGO from the West Kameng district of India’s northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, won the...
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World Environment Day : Promise To Beat Plastic Pollution For Clean Sustainable Planet
President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to reaffirm the commitment to a cleaner...
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Will The New Yamuna River Project Clean Up The River?
By Anasuya Basu Many studies have been conducted in the past on cleaning up the massively polluted Yamuna river and how to...
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