There is more water than land in north Bihar. The rivers that ramble down from the Himalaya feed numerous depressions scattered all over the plains making wetlands innumerable, one of the most productive ecosystems on Earth. Rich in flora and fauna, it i
In India, wetlands are distributed in all the biogeographic regions and exhibit significant ecological diversity, primarily because of the variability in climate, geology, habitat and topography.
Tourism threatens the Jaisamand lake near Udaipur
Once home to a rich variety of migratory birds from Russia, Siberia and Central Asia, Gamaghar Lake near Lahore, Pakistan, has been driven to the verge of extinction by an ill-planned irrigation
The result obtained from stalagamites supplemented by past temperature records, type of vegetation, data from the oceans such as the growth rate of corals are used in drawing a conclusive picture of the past monsoons
After a heat wave scorched Europe this summer, it is the largest ice shelf in the Arctic region that seems to have fallen prey to global warming. At least 3,000 years old, the Ward Hunt ice shelf on
<p>This national wetland atlas prepared by SAC, Ahmedabad as a part of the project on National Wetland Inventory & Assessment presents wetland status of each State/Union Territory through text, statistical tables, satellite images,maps and ground photographs.</p>
EVERYONE recognises the importance of forests. We have over the years set up several structures and evolved policies to try and conserve them. How effective these are is, of course, another question.
Zimbabwe has announced plans for culling and contraception to slow down rampant elephant population growth. The announcement comes close to a recent incident in which a rogue elephant trampled to
Do Indian festivals have to be as polluting as they are at present?
Four fisherfolks were killed in police firing in Chilka Lake when they were protesting against prawn farming in the lake on May 29
A top secret Soviet nuclear complex contaminated its environs for 40 years, exposing thousands of people in the vicinity to radiation
The Orissa state government and the high court assume different postures even as the local fisherfolk continue to suffer<br> <br>
Bhajani Behera of Arakhakuda village, feels the lake is doomed unless the government mounts rescue operations quickly. He should know, because he has spent 65 years of his life fishing in the lake for a living.
Click here to enlarge Kolkata went under water on September 24, 2006. The Meteorological Office said that Kolkata received 211.6 mm of rain on 22 September. That
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finally come up with a full-fledged plan to combat pollution at the Great Lakes on the US-Canadian border. The basin-of the 5 lakes,
The invasion of exotics is as destructive in water as it is on land. These have rightly been described as "biotic oil spills'. A growing number of uninvited fish, molluscs, plants, plankton and
The people of China are hoping that last summers flood, the worst since 1954 in the Yangtze River, will be a warning to the authorities that they can no longer take the environment for granted (
SCIENTISTS in Bolivia have found the world's largest group of dinosaur foot-prints. The footprints up to one metre long were found near the town of Sucre, 700 kilometre southeast of the capital La
"Extremotolerant" bacteria make a living in the deepfreeze lakes in Antarctica
