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 …
The situation was particularly grim in Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts in eastern Assam, where nearly 45,000 people have been affected. Thousands of people across Assam have been affected after incessant rains over the last week caused several rivers, including the Brahmaputra, to overflow. The overflowing rivers have breached embankments, inundated …
Despite various efforts of the government to depollute rivers across the country, water was found unsafe for drinking without treatment, according to a survey conducted by a green advocacy body. A survey by TERI of seven major river cities revealed that 86 per cent of the respondents affirmed that it …
The Ganga-Bramhaputra Basin together store around 960 cubic km of water, researchers have claimed in a first of its kind study after mapping the rivers, and said it will help understand signatures of droughts and floods to better manage water resources in the region. Scientists from India, the UK, France …
Just as the SC has asked for a comprehensive look at the mass of hydropower projects on the Ganga in Uttarakhand, NGT wants a similar exercise for the project rush in Arunachal's river system The Union government has bought yet more time from the Supreme Court to decide the fate …
The northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, i.e. the Bay of Bengal (BoB) is located near some of the most complicated tectonic zones on the Earth. An earthquake of magnitude ~6.0 occurred on 21 May 2014 near the coast of Odisha. Occasional moderate to large earthquakes in BoB highlight the …
The voracious Brahmaputra has rendered homeless as many as 36,981 families by eroding their lands and houses across Assam in the past five years, the State Assembly was informed today. In his written reply to a query in the House, Assam Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Bhumidhar Barman said that …
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi urged Union minister for water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation, Uma Bharati, to clear the Rs 1,500-crore, World Bank-funded Assam Flood and Erosion Management Modernization Project. Gogoi had submitted the project proposal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi a few months ago. Gogoi also asked Bharati …
The city of Guwahati has a rich historical past and finds frequent mention in medieval historical sources and epics. From the pre-historic existence, the city has evolved through various stages of development and lately, the city has entered a phase of vigorous growth changing remarkably its fabric of settlement and …
An initiative called ‘Mission Clean Brahmaputra’ was launched here today to keep the river clean for a better habitat of aquatic animals and for a greater benefit of the people. The Mission launched by Aaranyak, a society for nature conservation and a Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, would focus on …
Within days of the year’s first killing of a rhino at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, carcasses of two more rhinos have been found, their horns sawed off, authorities said on Sunday. On Jan 9, the poachers killed a one-horned rhino in Dhing in Nagaon district and escaped with …
The Ganges–Brahmaputra river delta, with 170 million people and a vast, low-lying coastal plain, is perceived to be at great risk of increased flooding and submergence from sea-level rise. However, human alteration of the landscape can create similar risks to sea-level rise. Here, we report that islands in southwest Bangladesh, …
Majuli, one of the largest inhabited river islands in the world, is under serious threat due to large-scale bank erosion by the Brahmaputra River. There is urgent need to preserve this socio-culturally rich island of over 0.2 million people. Erosions have been shrinking its landmass significantly and thereby causing enormous …
GUWAHATI, Nov 30 – Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has called upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take up the issue of construction of dams on the Brahmaputra river with China. In a memorandum to Modi, Gogoi pointed out that there were reports of China constructing dams on the Brahmaputra river, …
MIRZA, Nov 26 – Eminent environmentalist Dr Anwaruddin Choudhury has said that activities like unregulated sand mining and fishing in rivers like Kulsi and the Brahmaputra have been indirectly affecting the survival of the gangetic river dolphin (Platanista Gangetica) and that the Assam Government and the environmental bodies should come …
China is the upper riparian since the Brahmaputra River originates in Tibet, and India is sharing the role of lower riparian alongside Bangladesh Two members of parliament yesterday voiced concerns in the house over China’s Zangmu dam project on the Brahmaputra River, demanding that the government take immediate measures to …
China today partly commissioned its largest hydropower station in Tibet, built on the Brahmaputra river, that could restrict the flow of water in the major river in the riparian regions in India and Bangladesh. The first generating unit of the 9.6 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) Zangmu Hydropower Station, which is …
China has announced that it has completed a major hydropower dam on the Brahmaputra, called Yarlung Zangbo, in Tibet. The dam is bound to enhance fears in India and Bangladesh about flash floods and related risks like landslides involving lives of millions of people downstream. India has repeatedly expressed concern …
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal are connected by the combined system of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers, but erratic water supplies and pressures of population growth are leading to tensions over management of these transboundary waters. GOLAM RASUL outlines the main issues of transboundary water management in this Himalayan …
Guwahati: Death toll due to flood and landslides in Assam mounted to 21 on Tuesday even as situation continued to remain grim in parts of Guwahati city and the worst affected Goalpara district. Two more persons died due to landslides in two localities –Kahilipara and Lalmati – in Guwahati city …
Guwahati: Seven people were killed in Meghalaya's South West Garo Hills district on Monday after eight hours of rain led to flash floods. More than a lakh have been affected. Deputy commissioner of South West Garo Hills district Ram Singh said six people were killed by a landslide and one …
