Biodiversity
Micro-plastics in the fish I eat
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 […]
Tag: Rivers
Climate
A testimony of water challenges in south-east Asia
Nextblue Urban growth, temperature rise and melting glaciers threaten river deltas around the world. South-east Asia – from India to China – in particular […]
Cities
Sewage pollution: our research reveals the scale of England’s growing problem
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 […]
Environment
Damming Brahmaputra: With mega-dam plans, China might end up hurting itself more than India
The true idea of a river is not of a single stream of water between two banks, but a nervous system of watery arteries […]
COVID-19
Recover Better With Nature: Personhood Rights to Rivers can help
It is now clear that when humans shut down, rivers flow healthy. The evidences that we have gathered during the Covid19 lockdown should be […]