इस अध्ययन में, गंगा की दो प्रमुख सहायक नदियों - भागीरथी और अलकनंदा, जो उत्तराखंड के देवप्रयाग में परस्पर विलीन होकर गंगा के रूप में जानी जाती हैं, पर ध्यान केंद्रित करते हुए पर्वतीय क्षेत्रों में मानव गतिविधियों के नदी पर पड़ने वाले प्रभावों का विश्लेषण किया गया है।

Thanks to the strong will of a bureaucrat and the villagers to provide green cover to a barren plot of land, around an acre of in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad district has been modified into a ‘micro-forest’.

Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Karnataka — which comprise more than 25 per cent of the country’s land area — show huge stress in groundwater reserves. In Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Punjab, extraction of groundwater is more than their annual recharge.

Heavy rainfall induced due to a strong ‘tropical wave’ pulls Tamil Nadu out of ‘deficient’ rainfall category. But, not without causing damages to property and loss of lives. Such extremes are the new normal, warn weather experts

Joshimath in Uttarakhand has both religious and tourist significance. But several villages in the area are slowly subsiding, say the local villagers and scientists who have studied the region. Houses have developed cracks making it highly unsafe for people to live in them. Maximum subsidence is observed in the wards of Ravigram, Gandhinagar and Sunil, and thousands of people may be displaced.

By acknowledging its disparate historical roles in climate change, India highlights the significance of climate finance. Lower-middle-income countries like India confront financial obstacles in their efforts to shift to a low-carbon economy.