With every monsoon, the extent of floods in the country and its ensuing misery increases. Is this suffering largely self inflicted?

DESPITE continuing criticism from ecologists, work has started on the Three Gorges Dam along the Yangtze river in China, the world's largest hydroelectric project. The project includes a

Sandwiched between an encroaching sea and dams that prevent silt from reaching it, the Nile delta seems doomed.

Through many weary days and nights since March, the residents of a south Ecuadorean valley kept a wary eye on a landslide holding back the rain swollen Paute river. Then, at dawn one day, the dam broke...

Even as the state government continues to accuse Tata Iron & Steel Company (TISCO) of unchecked deforestation around Jamshedpur, it has also locked horns with TISCO over riparian rights in the

GEOLOGISTS have found traces of a river that flowed between 5,000 and 11,000 years ago in the desert expanse of the Arabian peninsula. Some stretches of the river may have been as wide as 5 km

IRAQ OPENED its Third River, a vast drainage canal flowing midway between the Euphrates and the Tigris, in early December. The 565-km-long main canal, which took 40 years to complete because of

Scientists think an upsurge of land may have brought two rivers together to form what is today the Cauvery.