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Are the world’s freshwater sources vanishing before our eyes? Satellite images reveal an appalling global water crisisAcross the globe, our precious rivers, lakes, and reservoirs are diminishing at an alarming rate. Cutting-edge satellite imagery underscore...
Thailand revives $30 billion coast-to-coast corridor to rival Malacca StraitThailand plans a massive "Land Bridge" to connect the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. This project aims to offer a new shipping route...
Fish are adapting to rivers shaped by dams and barriers, and that may be changing how man-made rivers function over timeFor decades, river restoration has focused on returning waterways to conditions that existed before dams, weirs and large-scale human inter...
Arizona’s San Carlos Lake closes after catastrophic fish kill wipes out ‘approximately 100%’ of fish population; best alternatives for fishing and campingSan Carlos Lake in Eastern Arizona is now closed to all fishing and recreation. A massive fish kill has wiped out nearly the entire fish po...
From river to muddy trail: Yamuna in Delhi is now just a shallow brown stream, Villagers walk across the dry river bedThe Yamuna River in Delhi has shrunk to a shallow, brown stream, with locals now walking across its dry bed. This yearly phenomenon is attr...
Fishermen are being pushed to the brink by fuel costs in Southeast AsiaRising energy, freight, and supply chain expenses are escalating seafood prices globally. Governments offer aid, but it's stretched thin, i...
A Canadian lake shaped like an emoji suddenly drained dry in a geological event rarely seen on EarthLake Rouge in Quebec catastrophically drained in May 2025 due to a landslide and outburst flood, leaving a barren crater. This rare event w...
Heavy rain alert issued for KeralaThe India Meteorological Department has issued an orange alert for Pathanamthitta and Alappuzha districts in Kerala. Heavy rainfall is expe...
Officials plan to flush thousands of toilets to help refill a Utah lake and generate powerWater managers are releasing massive amounts of water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir to safeguard hydropower production at Lake Powell, which...
MP boat tragedy: Death toll climbs to 13; body of last missing person recoveredTwo more bodies were recovered from Bargi Dam on Sunday morning. The deceased were a five-year-old boy and his uncle. This brings the total...
Rare earth mining is poisoning Mekong River tributaries, threatening 'the world's kitchen'Toxic runoff from unregulated rare earth mines in Myanmar and Laos is contaminating the Mekong River and its tributaries, threatening the l...
These Tiny Fish Are Climbing Waterfalls And Scientists Are Still Figuring Out WhyBiologists in Brazil recently documented thousands of bumblebee catfish, Rhyacoglanis paranensis, climbing waterfalls in the Aquidauana Riv...
Tripura constructed 443 check dams from 2022 to date: OfficialThe Tripura government has built 443 check dams in Dhalai and North Tripura. This is part of the Indo German Development Cooperation projec...
Fish import in Himachal partially bannedAbout 5,500 oustee families are directly connected with fishing business with the Maharana Pratap Pong Dam and the Gobind Sagar Reservoir, ...
Arunachal Pradesh CM Nabam Tuki assures passage of fish in damsAP CM Nabam Tuki today assured to incorporate in MoUs and MoAs provisions of passage for fish at dams of upcoming power projects in the sta...
China's biggest hydropower project Xiaonanhai Dam struck down by Environment MinistryConstruction work for the proposed Xiaonanhai Dam as well as other dams should be banned on the Jinsha River, the Ministry said in a stern ...
Keoladeo National Park faces survival threatWith water bodies around the park drying up, no fish to feed, no nests to be raised, KNP is in for a catastrophe.
Rs 10 crore NABARD fund to implement master plan for fisheriesFisheries Department will avail Rs 10 crore funds from NABARD to implement a master plan through the Fish Development Agency.
- Dams destroying fisheries, livelihoods
The Delhi-based South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People (Sandrap) has urged the Union ministry of environment forests (MoEF) and its ex...
- Damodar Valley Corporation renews pisciculture
Twenty farmers, now being imparted scientific training to increase production of fish, will get 20 check dams to rear fish, a DVC official ...