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Explore the immersive worlds of novelists and rivers in Amitav Ghosh's "Wild Fictions" and Robert Macfarlane's "Is a River Alive?" ...
Ganga river in Bangladesh is known as the Padma. Discover where the name changes, how the river flows across borders, and why ...
Four people are dead and several more are believed to be trapped under debris after a cloudburst struck the Indian state of ...
At least five people died, and several others went missing after a cloudburst triggered flash floods in Uttarkashi’s Dharali ...
In 2024, Uttarakhand experienced extreme weather events for 106 days, which caused 85 deaths. In just the first three months of 2025, there have already been 13 such days, with 12 fatalities.
Experts from the Indian Meteorological Department are now arguing that the flash flood in Dharali village, Uttarakhand, was ...
Tirthan Valley, a hidden gem, welcomes you with pine-scented air as you stroll through the quaint forest trails leading to ...
Floods expose Varanasi’s Smart City failure as ghats drown, homes vanish, and unchecked development chokes the Ganga.
This downtown park gets hyped as a must-see attraction, but locals know it's just a fountain where three rivers meet, surrounded by busy roads and homeless encampments.
In a 2014 keynote address on writing in the anthropocene, the author Ursula K. Le Guin suggested a simple antidote to ...
Uttarakhand, the mountainous northern state that hosts Dharali, has been devastated by cloudbursts before. A June 2013 ...
The Indian Army has launched a swift and coordinated Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) operation in the wake ...