India's rivers, once the cradle of civilization and culture, are today a site of deep ecological distress. While Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) advocates for clean water and sanitation for all...
This blog emerges from a detailed discussion between Dr Sulagna Chattopadhyay, Editor in Chief, and Dr Srinivas Goli, Associate Professor in Demography at the International Institute for Population Sc...
This blog emerges from a two-part conversation investigating the evolving understanding of sustainability by tracing its roots through geological epochs, civilizational collapses, demographic surges,...
Studies show that 35 per cent of Ladakh’s glaciers will have disappeared in two decades. Nothing reflects the dismal situation more clearly than the rising water scarcity that is affecting the lives o...
Drought is a normal climatic phenomenon that occurs in all climatic zones, but its intensity and frequency usually increases towards drier climatic zones. In weather terms, drought occurs when rainfal...
Studies show that 35 per cent of Ladakh’s glaciers will have disappeared in two decades. Nothing reflects the dismal situation more clearly than the rising water scarcity that is affecting the lives of every inhabitant of the region.
Drought is a normal climatic phenomenon that occurs in all climatic zones, but its intensity and frequency usually increases towards drier climatic zones. In weather terms, drought occurs when rainfall received is a certain percentage lower than the long term average for the area. Drought is not a disaster in the sense an earthquake, a cyclone, or a landslide is, because it does not strike with th...
