4 August 2026
🗺️ Subject
Geography Current Affairs
Geography current affairs for UPSC and State PCS: monsoon and climate phenomena, rivers and water disputes, mountain ranges and landforms in the news, mining and resources, and map-based locations from India and the world. Articles pair every news event with the physical geography behind it, mapped to GS Paper 1 and 3 with locations, data tables and map pointers for Prelims.
Latest Geography Articles
All Daily →3 August 2026
Mules Over Shipki La: India-China Border Trade Resumes After Six Years
2 August 2026
Eight Dead in Kerala: Extremely Heavy Rain, Landslides and the Western Ghats Question
29 July 2026
The Cauvery Order: Adjudication in a Drought Year
28 July 2026
Vizhinjam International Seaport Cleared for EXIM Cargo: Ending India's Transshipment Leakage
15 July 2026
New Study Explains How the Indian Plate Built the Tibetan Plateau
21 June 2026
Tawang Glacial Lakes and GLOF Risk in the Himalaya
19 June 2026
India's Monsoon Stalls: MJO, Somali Jet and a 38% June Deficit
18 June 2026
The Ganges Water Treaty at 30 — Farakka, the Padma Barrage and the 2026 Renewal
All Geography Articles by Month
August 2026 (3 articles)
July 2026 (3 articles)
June 2026 (9 articles)
- Tawang Glacial Lakes and GLOF Risk in the Himalaya
- India's Monsoon Stalls: MJO, Somali Jet and a 38% June Deficit
- The Ganges Water Treaty at 30 — Farakka, the Padma Barrage and the 2026 Renewal
- Kishau Multi-Purpose Dam: Six States End an Eight-Year Deadlock
- Oxford Study Places 14 Indian Cities Among the World's Most Heat-Risk Exposed
- Zojila Tunnel Achieves Breakthrough, Set to Give Ladakh All-Weather Access
- Bhakra Dam Tilt Renews Focus on India's Ageing Dam Safety
- Southwest Monsoon Arrives Kerala — IMD Forecasts Below-Normal Season Amid El Niño
- Aravallis Under Threat — India's Ancient Climate Shield Is Weakening
May 2026 (14 articles)
- Current Affairs Today — May 29, 2026
- SW Monsoon 2026 — Early Kerala Onset, 92% of LPA Below-Normal Forecast
- Mount Everest — 73rd Anniversary of the First Ascent (May 29, 1953)
- IMD Yellow Alert for Delhi-NCR: 43–45°C Heatwave; SW Monsoon Onset on Track for Kerala May 26
- Current Affairs Today — May 17, 2026
- IMD Heatwave Alerts Across North India & Early Monsoon Onset Forecast
- India Raises Petrol and Diesel Prices by Rs 3 -- OMC Under-Recovery and West Asia Crisis
- Andaman & Nicobar Guinness Records + India's Semiconductor Push
- AMOC Collapse Risk: 59% Weakening by 2100 Could Devastate India's Monsoon
- Dorjilung Hydropower Project — 1,125 MW, Bhutan, Tata Power, World Bank Financing
- Current Affairs Today — May 4, 2026
- Tamil Nadu Overtakes Gujarat as India's Top Marine Fish Producer — CMFRI 2025 Data
- Andaman & Nicobar Islands Set Two Guinness World Records — Underwater Flag and Human Stack
- Pre-Monsoon Rain in NE India — Norwesters, Kalbaisakhi, and India's Bipolar Climate
April 2026 (12 articles)
- Shekha Jheel — India's 99th Ramsar Site and the Expanding Wetland Conservation Network
- Stauranthera aureoglossa — New Plant Species in Arunachal and India's Northeast Biodiversity
- Marine Spatial Planning — Odisha Leads India's Ocean Governance
- Jonnagiri Gold Mine — India Launches Its First Private Gold Mine
- Current Affairs Today — April 19, 2026
- Gangotri Temple Opens — Char Dham Yatra 2026 Season Begins
- Project Him Sarovar: Ladakh's Snow-Harvesting Bid for Water Security in a Warming Cold Desert
- Sundarbans Loses 10–15% Ecological Resilience: Climate Crisis in the World's Largest Mangrove
- ASI Discovers 1,500-Year-Old Stepped Reservoir on Elephanta Island
- Kalai-II Hydroelectric Project: 1,200 MW on the Lohit River
- Gangotri National Park Reopens — Ecology, Wildlife, and Climate Significance
- Gangotri National Park — Himalayan Ecology and the Ganga's Source
March 2026 (5 articles)
February 2026 (11 articles)
- Sulawesi Hand Stencil — World's Oldest Rock Art at 67,800 Years
- Congo Basin Peatlands — Ancient Carbon Release and Climate Implications
- Current Affairs Today — February 23, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — February 22, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — February 21, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — February 19, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — February 14, 2026
- Brahmaputra Rail-Road Twin Tunnel — India's First Underwater Transport Corridor
- Current Affairs Today — February 13, 2026
- Indus Waters Treaty — Pakistan Invokes IWT over Sawalkot Hydroelectric Project
- ADB USD 182 Million Loan for Brahmaputra Flood Management — Assam's Climate Resilience Challenge
January 2026 (12 articles)
- NSHIP Thoothukudi — India's Blue Economy Push Through Mega Shipbuilding Cluster
- Vishwamitri River — India's Urban Crocodile Haven and the Mugger Conservation Story
- Current Affairs Today — January 21, 2026
- Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary — Eco-Sensitive Zone Notified
- Kondagai Lake: A 4,500-Year Climate Record from Tamil Nadu
- Kaziranga Elevated Wildlife Corridor — When a Highway Learns to Share Space with Rhinos
- Sangai Deer at the Edge — Keibul Lamjao's Floating World and a Species Racing Against Extinction
- Makar Sankranti and India's Agricultural Festival Calendar
- Current Affairs Today — January 11, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — January 7, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — January 3, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — January 2, 2026
Geography Editorial Analysis
All Editorials →5 August 2026
Not the Rain: Kerala's Floods Are a Land-Use Failure
27 July 2026
Water in Abeyance: India's Plans on the Western Rivers and Pakistan's Protest at the United Nations
26 July 2026
The Slope Gives Way: Himachal's Landslides Are a Governance Failure
26 July 2026
Reading the Reservoirs: A 15 Per Cent Deficit and the Water Year Ahead
25 July 2026
The Rule Curve We Ignore: How Full Dams Manufacture Floods
24 April 2026
High Heat — On India and Warming
All Geography Editorials (16 total)
- Not the Rain: Kerala's Floods Are a Land-Use Failure
- Water in Abeyance: India's Plans on the Western Rivers and Pakistan's Protest at the United Nations
- The Slope Gives Way: Himachal's Landslides Are a Governance Failure
- Reading the Reservoirs: A 15 Per Cent Deficit and the Water Year Ahead
- The Rule Curve We Ignore: How Full Dams Manufacture Floods
- High Heat — On India and Warming
- As Gangotri Opens, the Glacier Closes: Pilgrimage Tourism Cannot Ignore the Ice That Feeds the Ganga
- Dry Days Ahead: El Niño Threatens India's 2026 Monsoon
- Parched Again: Why Bengaluru's Water Crisis Is a Failure of Urban Design, Not Rainfall
- New Measure for Heat Stress Reframes the Climate Challenge
- The Gangotri Crisis: When Glaciers Retreat, Water Wars Begin
- Himalayan Fire Shift — When Climate Change Pushes Flames to New Heights
- Spring That Never Came — El Niño 2026 and the Monsoon Threat India Must Prepare For
- The Aravalli Question — Science, Law and the Desert at the Gate
- BRO and the Logic of Border Infrastructure — Building Under Adversity
- Kaziranga Elevated Corridor — Can Linear Infrastructure Co-exist with Wildlife?
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