Water Pollution

Water that is polluted — by industrial, household or agricultural waste, for instance — can pose a range of threats to human health and the wider environment.

Virtual water trade: India loses, China gains water through food trade

Food exports are running India dry, while China is conserving its water supply by importing water intensive crops such as soya, a new analysis of the two ...

China’s climate migrants

Forced relocations in China’s arid Ningxia province underline the difficulties of adapting to climate change. This piece won a chinadialogue award for ‘Best ...

Dammed if they don’t

People who have accepted relocation from the future reservoir zone of the Lower Sesan II hydropower project have called for the suspension of the resettlement ...

Sweeping vegetation changes projected in Kashmir Himalayas due to global warming

A team of researchers predict sweeping changes in vegetation in Kashmir Himalayas due to climate change. Kashmir is likely to lose a large chunk of its snow ...

Lake Malawi in danger

Lake Malawi is millions of years old and is home to about 1,000 fish species – more than any other lake on the planet. Part of the African Great Lakes, which ...

Water levels plummet in Indian reservoirs

Two years of poor rainfall have led to such low water levels in Indian reservoirs that most hydropower plants are running at a small fraction of their ...