The past decades have seen a rapid depletion of groundwater. A dedicated programme in a mission mode for scientifically guided solutions, aimed at water management of complex hydrological systems under variable climatic conditions, is thus urgently needed.

Sea level change research has become crucial to the debate of climate change. This article attempts to identify factors that have been linked to sea level changes across the world, the change measurements and the possible consequences with special reference to the Indian Ocean.

The ash lagoons of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) at Dadri have become an avian habitat frequented in winter by hordes of migratory birds of a wide variety from far off lands.