POKHARA: Stakeholders today urged the government to clearly incorporate the local community’s rights and duties into the wetland policy.

Sixty people died in a building collapse in Chennai earlier this month. There is much more than the municipal incompetence that needs to be fixed to avoid such tragic incidents.

NOW that Nicaragua has picked a path for a Chinese firm to dig a canal connecting the Caribbean and the Pacific, environmentalists are worried about a huge lake on the route.

Drought in the south-western US will deplete the vast Lake Mead this week to levels not seen since Hoover Dam was completed and the reservoir on the Colorado River was filled in the 1930s, federal

New Zealand's rivers and lakes were given the country's first ever national standards for water quality on Thursday -- although critics said the standards would allow some waterways to get worse.

The poor environmental practices of the former Soviet Union and other eastern European states over many decades is well documented.

BHOPAL: National Green Tribunal (NGT) central zone has again directed state government to ban all constructions within 300 metre zone of full tank level (FTL) of the Upper Lake.

The state archaeological department will prepare a plan to conserve the ancient sculptures and temples found in the receding water of the Panchganga river.

California may ratchet up enforcement of drought-related pumping restrictions in slow-moving creeks and lakes under new rules being considered on Tuesday, prompting worry among farmers as the state

The area of inland lakes in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau has expanded 26 percent in the past 20 years, according to new research results.