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How Migratory Fish Navigate India's Rivers During the Monsoon Using a Biological Compass Science Is Still Mapping

The fish that reads the river like a mapThe Hilsa, Tenualosa ilisha, can detect a change in water salinity of less than 0.1 parts per thousand. That sensitivity is not incidental. It is the opening move in one of the most precise navigational performances in freshwater biology. Every monsoon, adult…

Times Life · Aug 29

India's Indian Softshell Turtle Is One of the Most Endangered Freshwater Reptiles in Its Own Rivers

A Reptile Built for Rivers, Stranded by ThemThe Indian softshell turtle, Nilssonia gangetica, can grow to over 70 centimetres and weigh close to 25 kilograms. Its shell is not the hard dome most people picture. It is a flattened, leathery pad, cartilaginous rather than bony, that lets the animal slip…

Times Life · Aug 27

Chilika Lake's Hidden Biodiversity: The Aquatic Species Living in India's Largest Coastal Lagoon

A Lake That Is Not Quite a LakeChilika is a brackish water lagoon, not a freshwater lake, and that distinction is the biological engine behind everything that lives in it. Spread across roughly 1,100 square kilometres along the Odisha coast, it sits at the meeting point of the Mahanadi river…

Times Life · Aug 26

Floodwaters enter over 100 villages in Odisha, 1.2 lakh hit

BHUBANESWAR: On a day the sun came out, there was misery in store for Odisha as floodwater entered more than 100 villages across the state in the past 24 hours, forcing people to abandon their homes on Tuesday.

The Times of India · Aug 17, 2022

Ten districts of Odisha brace for flood as Mahanadi swells after incessant rain

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik emphasises on zero causality policy.

The Hindu · Aug 16, 2022

NGT directs Odisha not to undertake any permanent construction in Mahanadi’s floodplain area

Tribunal also stops sand mining near River Subarnarekha in Balasore district

The Hindu · Feb 15, 2022