Author: Sapna Gopal

Community interventions to dig wells and ponds has enabled farmers to fight drought and halt the trend of desertification in Odisha’s Balangir district

The Ganga won’t be revived until there are controls on the massive amount of water extracted from the river basin and till the time dams are decommissioned

The Ganga was cleaned for the Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj, but keeping the river basin pollution free in the long run will require a complete overhaul of the governance system

The documentary film, Ho Gayi Hai Pir Parvat Si, puts the voices of the people of Himachal Pradesh, where the Sutlej River is being dammed by hydropower projects, front and centre

Although Tamil Nadu is rapidly increasing the proportion of renewables in its energy mix, the southern state continues to remain invested in coal-fired power plants

Can the International Seabed Authority agree on a way to develop deep seabed mining while at the same time protect biodiversity and fragile ecosystems?

People in Tamil Nadu have come out strongly in favour of the state government’s ban on throwaway, single-use plastics such as carry bags and cups

With retreating glaciers, melting permafrost and extreme rainfall events, a recent report suggests that the countries of the Hindu Kush Himalayas have to start cooperating far more closely, or pay a huge price

Villagers in Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra have turned to biogas as cooking fuel, which cuts out indoor air pollution, reduces carbon emissions and saves trees from being chopped for firewood 

The sorry state of Mahanadi River and of the majority of people living in its basin is due to poor planning that has ignored the water-energy-food nexus. Lives can be improved only by taking the nexus into account