The HKH Snow Update 2025 highlights a significant decline in seasonal snow across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, with snow persistence 23.6% below normal — the lowest in 23 years. This trend, now in its third consecutive year, threatens water security for nearly two billion people. All twelve major river …
Two weeks after a much-hyped embankment constructed with the application of a geo-fabric technology failed to prevent the Brahmaputra from flooding Lakhimpur district, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday ordered a high-level inquiry into alleged anomalies in the Rs 100-crore contract that was awarded to a Malaysian company. The …
Even as the decrease in the rainfall amount has led to the improvement in the overall flood scenario of the State, barring Majuli River Island, there is a possibility of the postponement of the execution of the geo-tube retirement dyke at Matmara to the next dry season. The Brahmaputra was, …
The flood situation at Dhakuwakhana was still grim on the fourth day since overflowing waters of the Brahmaputra entered this subdivision of Lakhimpur district through the unrepaired gaps of the embankment at Matmara. So far over one lakh people have been affected by the floods that have inundated hundreds of …
The Brahmaputra is still flowing 67 cm above the danger mark of 93.03 metres in Matmora area of Lakhimpur district, even as the Mora Pagladiya river breached its right embankment at three places and its left embankment at one place in the Gobradal area of Nalbari district last night. Though …
The Assam Government has sent out a red alert across the flood-prone districts, following a breach of embankment on the swelling Brahmaputra river in Upper Assam on Wednesday. State Revenue Minister Bhumidhar Barman said at least 80 villages have been engulfed by gushing waters, rendering over one lakh people homeless …
A red alert was sounded in Lakhimpur district as the 100-metre stretch of the state-of-the art Matmora embankment, which was constructed using the geo-fabric technology at a cost of Rs 140 crore, was washed away by the gushing water of the Brahmaputra yesterday, reports PTI. As a result, nearly 300 …
A minor phase of the Majuli Island protection project executed by Brahmaputra Board is expected to be completed next year, chairman of the Board Rajen Nair said. The Project is part of the long-term project sanctioned in 2005. The Brahmaputra Board prepared Detailed Project Report amounting to Rs.86.56 crore for …
Ganges River dolphins (Platanista gangetica gangetica) occur in the Ganges-Brahmaputra River system primarily in India and Bangladesh. They are listed as Endangered by the IUCN due to a probable population decline of at least 50% over the last 50 years and projected future population declines. No quantitative estimates of abundance …
With the Pagladiya project suffering inordinate delays, the Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) is toying with the idea of shifting the project to upper reaches to neighbouring Bhutan. This idea was discussed at a meeting between Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi and Union Minister of State for Water Resources, Vincent H …
Floods feared in Arunachal and Assam; governments least prepared a landslide on the Indo-Tibetan border has blocked the course of the river Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) resulting in the formation of a reservoir. This may cause flood in downstream areas of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam if the barrier of mud and debris …
Geomorphologically, the mighty Brahmaputra River system flows over the Quaternary sediments. This is a cause of concern because of its location in an abundant monsoon regime within an active seismogenic volume. Since time immemorial, the Brahmaputra has continued to wreck havoc through repeated floods year after year. The flow regime …
A new village named New Maria Basti created within Doomdooma revenue circle in Tinsukia district to rehabilitate the displaced families of Maria Basti, Bakjan Gutibari by Seva Kendra was formally inaugurated by Joseph Aind, the Bishop of Dibrugarh in presence of Durga Bhumij, MLA on Tuesday. Philip Purty, Director, Seva …
Building real cooperation on transboundary waters is always a lengthy and complex journey. Embracing cooperation is no simple task for a nation state, not least because of the perceived costs of the erosion of sovereignty, however small that erosion might be. While there are many examples of where cooperation is …
Some of the developing world's largest rivers including Ganges in South Asia are drying up because of climate change. Researchers from the US-based National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) said this after analysing data combined with computer models to assess river flows across the world. NCAR analysed data of running …
Rivers in some of the world's most populous regions are losing water, according to a new comprehensive study of global stream flow. The study, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), suggests that in many cases the reduced flows are associated with climate change. The process …
Sushanta Talukdar A view of the Balijan Tea estate eroded by the Brahmaputra in Rohmoria village in Dibrugarh district of Assam. Over the past 20 years, the river has eaten into paddy fields, homes, schools and plantations in the 38 villages of Rohmoria under the Dibrugarh Lok Sabha constituency. And …
