Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISC) found out that pollutants like micro-plastics may be causing growth defects in fish, including skeletal deformities […]
Nextblue Urban growth, temperature rise and melting glaciers threaten river deltas around the world. South-east Asia – from India to China – in particular […]
Sarah Purnell, University of Brighton and James Edward Ebdon, University of Brighton The UK has around 1,500 individual river systems, totalling over 200,000 km […]
The true idea of a river is not of a single stream of water between two banks, but a nervous system of watery arteries […]
It is now clear that when humans shut down, rivers flow healthy. The evidences that we have gathered during the Covid19 lockdown should be […]
Patagonia This film explores the evolution of our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our […]
This month two global news about rivers attracted my attention. One, the Colorado River, for dying a slow death due to climate change; and […]
India’s central government identified 15,000 acres in Kashmir – mostly next to rivers, streams and wetlands – for investors from outside the region Following […]
Insurgent South Asian rivers breached embankments repeatedly, turning engineered floodplains into hydrological dystopias, but dams kept getting built, and embankments kept getting longer and […]
A global study on pathogens in rivers finds that rivers harbour dangerous levels of diarrhoeal disease-causing pathogens Diarrhoea is one of the leading killers […]
Only 21 of the world’s 91 rivers longer than 1,000 km that originally flowed to the ocean still retain a direct connection from source […]
The Water Initiatives, Gram Swaraj and Vasundhara along with 35 partner organisations launched the 3rd Odisha River Conference with the theme – Promoting the […]