Accelerating glacier melt and rising precipitation on the Tibetan Plateau could sharply amplify Brahmaputra flood risks for India and Bangladesh, researchers warn.

New Delhi's strategic Upper Siang dam aims to neutralize Beijing's river diversion threat, but local indigenous youth fear ecological erasure and displacement.

Botanists in Assam have rediscovered a shrub unseen for two centuries, while ichthyologists identify two new subterranean fish species dwelling in deep wells.