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Brahmaputra

Assam floods: Over 1.9 lakh people hit, toll climbs to 15

Scroll Staff
· Aug 29, 2023 · 01:07 pm
Assam: Woman dead, six injured in clash with forest officials over land

Scroll Staff
· Jul 18, 2023 · 11:40 am
An elephant corridor in Assam is slowly being appropriated, threatening both animals and humans

Anupam Sarmah Arjun Kamdar David Smith Hiten Kumar Baishya
· Feb 16, 2023 · 01:30 pm
Melting glaciers threaten China and India’s hydropower ambitions

Alok Gupta
· Dec 14, 2022 · 07:30 pm
Assam: Nine missing after boat capsizes in Dhubri district

Scroll Staff
· Sep 29, 2022 · 05:31 pm
A traveller reflects on the Brahmaputra river’s changing mood along its course

Sanjoy Hazarika, IndiaSpend.com
· Sep 03, 2022 · 01:30 pm
Build, collapse, rebuild: Adapting to life on the flood-prone river islands of Bangladesh

Rafiqul Islam
· Jun 21, 2022 · 07:30 pm
In Assam, farmers are using fences of lemon trees to keep elephants away from crops and homes

Kasturi Das
· Jun 20, 2022 · 07:30 pm
Despite repeated climate-related disasters in Assam, many have no desire to migrate

Aatreyee Dhar
· May 14, 2022 · 09:30 pm
In Assam, riverbank erosion and divisive politics are setting the stage for future ethnic conflicts

Ankur Tamuli Phukan
· Mar 01, 2022 · 09:00 am
Frequent floods in the Brahmaputra are eating away at Assam’s tribal lands

Moushumi Basu, Thomson Reuters Foundation
· Jan 09, 2022 · 01:30 pm
In Brahmaputra’s floodplains, planted forests can help in tackling soil erosion

Nabarun Guha
· Dec 01, 2021 · 09:30 pm
In Assam, the rare Barca snakehead fish is on the brink of extinction

Anuraag Baruah
· Nov 18, 2021 · 07:30 pm
On the world’s largest river island in Assam, floating farms are boosting flood resilience

Gurvinder Singh
· Sep 21, 2021 · 09:30 pm
Why does Bangladesh flood even when it receives below average rainfall?

Ashik Iqbal, Dhaka Tribune
· Sep 05, 2021 · 09:30 pm
Interview: ‘The Braided River’ author Samrat Choudhury on writing about the Brahmaputra

Force
· Jun 19, 2021 · 12:30 pm
This book flows with the Brahmaputra from Tibet to the Ganga, blending travel, memoir and history

Samrat Choudhury
· May 04, 2021 · 08:30 am
China’s hydropower ambitions on the Brahmaputra could trigger a dam-building race with India

The Third Pole
· Dec 06, 2020 · 07:30 pm
Watch: Assam’s ‘boat clinics’ on the Brahmaputra serve the remotest islands along the river

Scroll Staff
· Aug 01, 2020 · 12:28 pm
What counts as a catastrophic flood in the Brahmaputra river basin now?

Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman
· Jul 29, 2020 · 09:00 am