Brahmaputra crosses danger mark in Guwahati as monsoon surge continues
River levels are expected to peak within 48 hours as relief camps open across the city.
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Category: Environment & Climate
Rivers, forests, wildlife and the climate crisis on the front line.
Meghalaya’s living root bridges draw record visitors — and a conservation dilemma
The double-decker root bridge at Nongriat, grown over decades from the aerial roots of ficus trees,…
Sikkim’s organic mission turns 20: lessons from the world’s first fully organic state
Twenty years after Sikkim banned synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, the world’s first fully organic state is…
Kaziranga opens its eastern range as rhino census numbers climb to 2,700
Kaziranga’s eastern Agoratoli range opened to visitors this season, giving tourists a new gateway into the…
Loktak Lake’s phumdi islands face a slow death — and a bold plan to save them
On Loktak Lake, the great floating islands of vegetation called phumdi have thinned dramatically in a…
Assam’s tea gardens brace for the climate squeeze on first flush
In the gardens around Jorhat, pluckers are picking what managers call a ‘confused first flush’ —…
The Garo Hills’ community forests: a quiet model for climate resilience
In the Garo Hills, forests are not a government line on a map — they are…
Arunachal’s apple belt bets on kiwi as warming winters bite
In the orchards around Ziro, where winter fog used to be thick enough to touch, growers…
The Brahmaputra’s river islands: Majuli’s museums and the fight against erosion
Majuli, the vast river island in the Brahmaputra, loses metres of its banks to erosion every…
Ziro Valley’s Apatani paddy fields seek UNESCO recognition
The Apatani people of the Ziro valley cultivate rice in a system so precise it has…