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India to restore 5 million hectares of degraded land by 2030
Posted on 04 Sep, 2019 11:04 AMAhead of UNCCD COP14 in Delhi this week, India pledges to restore 5 million hectares of degraded land by 2030
Hydropower in the Himalayas: Potential and risks
Posted on 21 Aug, 2019 11:01 PMWorldwide, the demand for energy has risen significantly and quickly, leading to serious impacts on environmental sustainability and hindering global efforts to mitigate climate change. Hydropower, a leading renewable option has the additional benefits of water storage for agriculture and other uses.
Global freshwater fish species under grave threat: IUCN
Posted on 24 Jul, 2019 05:01 PMAlarming decline in global freshwater fish species: IUCN
Revolutionising coastal monitoring, one social media photo at a time
Posted on 31 May, 2019 03:25 PMA citizen science project led by UNSW engineers in Sydney, Australia is leveraging thousands of crowd-sourced photos from social media, helping create new insights into how beaches respond to changing weather and wave conditions, and extreme storms – and now a new study has shown the program to be nearly as accurate and effective as professional shoreline monitor
Drought advisory issued to western and southern states
Posted on 22 May, 2019 11:30 AMCentre issues drought advisory to six states
Cyclone Fani ravages Odisha's ecological hotspots
Posted on 15 May, 2019 06:12 PMOdisha's ecological hotspots severely affected by cyclone
Only 37 percent of world’s long rivers free flowing
Posted on 14 May, 2019 05:02 PMA little over a third of the world's 246 long rivers remain free-flowing, as per a study by a team of 34 international researchers, including those from McGill University in Canada and World Wildlife Fund India.
Call For Entries: 7th Woodpecker International Film Festival 2019
Posted on 08 May, 2019 09:24 PMCall For Entries - 2019
Cyclone Fani hits Odisha, 35 dead
Posted on 07 May, 2019 03:36 PMCyclone Fani, strongest to hit India in 20 years, causes widespread destruction in Odisha
