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The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) has formed a technical group to investigate the origin, historical course and current flow of Uttar Pradesh’s Budhi Ganga river. The investigation will examine historical maps, satellite images and land records to verify the river’s route, which a petitioner claims stretches approximately 93km. The case, before the National

IMD issues orange alerts for heavy to very heavy rainfall in parts of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Lakshadweep, with up to 204.4mm possible in 24 hours. A developing weather system over the Bay of Bengal could intensify rainfall across southern India and nearby islands. Delhi-NCR is forecast to remain sunny, with temperatures

Water storage in India’s 178 major reservoirs fell by 3.489 billion cubic metres in just seven days, declining to 66.70% of total live storage capacity on 22 October 2026. Southern India’s 50 monitored reservoirs held just 42.34% of their capacity, compared with 89.35% during the same period last year. Several reservoirs in Tamil Nadu, Telangana

Every time a vehicle moves, its tyres shed tiny particles. Some of these particles carry a chemical that, in the U.S., was found killing salmon in urban streams after rain. India is selling more vehicles than ever before, yet experts say there is no data on how much of this chemical reaches the country’s rivers.

Christopher Columbus was a legendary 15th-century Italian explorer whose “misadventures” opened the way for large-scale biogeographical homogenisation. Over the past 500 years, since Columbus first sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean to reach the “New World”, Earth has witnessed unprecedented cross-boundary human movement and the exchange of living organisms. These movements have brought about major

The IMD has issued orange alerts for Kerala, Mahe, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal, warning of heavy to very heavy rainfall of 115.6–204.4mm. A fresh low-pressure system could develop over the Bay of Bengal around 23 October, potentially intensifying rainfall across southern India. Thunderstorms, lightning and strong winds are forecast across several southern states, with

New research from the Centre for Wildlife Studies evaluated changing fire regimes in wildlife reserves across three Indian landscapes, finding that burned area rose most steeply in the Eastern Ghats between 2002 and 2022, at 9.3% per year. The rising fires in the Eastern Ghats show that it has a more fire-prone combination of vegetation,