As World Water Week kick off today, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has highlighted that the opportunity cost from a lack of access to water disproportionately falls on women and girls who ...

By Rebecca MorelleScience Correspondent, BBC News 25 August 2016 From the sectionScience & Environment Scientists have used satellite images to study how the water on the Earth's surface has chang ...

IANS  |  Kolkata July 21, 2016 Last Updated at 13:40 IST Slow-melting of glaciers due to global warming may cause huge floods in Bhutan in the future and result in loss of keystone species which may e ...

Press Trust of India, Updated: Jul 11, 2016 11:59 IST DAR-ES-SALAAM: Seeking to enhance its ties with resource-rich Tanzania, India on Sunday extended its support to the country to meet its developmen ...

Neha Lalchandani| TNN | Jul 10, 2016, 11.52 PM IST NEW DELHI: Dependent largely on neighbouring states for water and perpetually short of meeting demand, Delhi is looking to boost supply by at least 5 ...

Sushmi Dey| TNN | Jul 11, 2016, 01.17 AM IST HIGHLIGHTS Climate change is likely to kill 250,000 more people each year by 2030, latest assessment by the WHO shows Most of these deaths will be caused f ...

DEHRADUN/ALMORA: Over 900 villages across the state had plunged into darkness when cloudbursts and incessant rains hit Uttarakhand on July 1. Of these, around 150 are still in the dark. Senior officia ...

PTI | Jul 5, 2016, 08.59 PM IST: Guwahati, Jul 5 () Nearly 90,000 people have been affected in the latest wave of floods across seven districts in Assam. Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASD ...

Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, July 4 - The Kamrup Metro district administration today directed all the circle officers (COs) to remove encroachments from the water bodies, natural channels and drains in an ...