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hydropower projects

  • China approves world’s largest hydropower dam on Brahmaputra river

    China approves world’s largest hydropower dam on Brahmaputra river

    Scroll Staff
    · Dec 26, 2024 · 08:35 pm
  • This monsoon, North Bengal is paying the price for last year’s Sikkim floods

    This monsoon, North Bengal is paying the price for last year’s Sikkim floods

    Rokibuz Zaman
    · Jun 27, 2024 · 06:30 am
  • ‘Ticking time bombs’: Sikkim floods a reminder of why locals opposed dams in the Himalayas for years

    ‘Ticking time bombs’: Sikkim floods a reminder of why locals opposed dams in the Himalayas for years

    Vaishnavi Rathore
    · Oct 09, 2023 · 06:30 am
  • Melting glaciers threaten China and India’s hydropower ambitions

    Melting glaciers threaten China and India’s hydropower ambitions

    Alok Gupta
    · Dec 14, 2022 · 07:30 pm
  • Government tweaks afforestation norms for forest land acquisition, worrying environmentalists

    Government tweaks afforestation norms for forest land acquisition, worrying environmentalists

    Mayank Aggarwal
    · Jun 01, 2019 · 01:30 pm
  • How villagers in Bhutan and India came together to resolve a water-sharing tussle

    How villagers in Bhutan and India came together to resolve a water-sharing tussle

    Shailendra Yashwant
    · Sep 04, 2018 · 01:30 pm
  • Why Teesta runs dry: Incomplete canal network and climate change also to blame

    Why Teesta runs dry: Incomplete canal network and climate change also to blame

    Jayanta Basu
    · Jun 21, 2017 · 07:30 pm
  • Arunachal hydropower project halted to save black-necked cranes

    Arunachal hydropower project halted to save black-necked cranes

    Nivedita Khandekar
    · May 10, 2016 · 09:30 pm