{"id":939908,"date":"2026-07-08T13:29:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nenow.in\/?p=520280"},"modified":"2026-07-08T13:29:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:29:03","slug":"climate-change-threatens-fish-habitats-in-manipurs-loktak-lake-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2026\/07\/08\/climate-change-threatens-fish-habitats-in-manipurs-loktak-lake-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change threatens fish habitats in Manipur\u2019s Loktak Lake, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-3-5.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-3-5.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-3-5.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-3-5.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-3-5.jpg?resize=400%2C240&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-3-5.jpg?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-3-5.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-3-5.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-3-5.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-3-5.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-3-5.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-3-5.jpg?resize=400%2C240&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-3-5.jpg?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-3-5.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>By Barasha Das Loktak lake is northeast India\u2019s largest freshwater wetland and is the ecological heart of Manipur. The lake spans about 287 square kilometres, about half the size of the capital Imphal, and is already under growing\u00a0stress\u00a0from pollution, altered hydrology and catchment degradation. Now, a new study warns that climate change could further reduce [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/environment\/climate-change-threatens-fish-habitats-in-manipurs-loktak-lake-study-finds.html\">Climate change threatens fish habitats in Manipur&#8217;s Loktak Lake, study finds<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/\">NorthEast Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/environment\/climate-change-threatens-fish-habitats-in-manipurs-loktak-lake-study-finds.html\">https:\/\/nenow.in\/environment\/climate-change-threatens-fish-habitats-in-manipurs-loktak-lake-study-finds.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Barasha Das Loktak lake is northeast India\u2019s largest freshwater wetland and is the ecological heart of Manipur. The lake spans about 287 square kilometres, about half the size of the capital Imphal, and is already under growing\u00a0stress\u00a0from polluti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20380],"tags":[465,34,319,20383,20381,20384,20382],"class_list":["post-939908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nenow","tag-environment","tag-manipur","tag-manipur-news","tag-nenow","tag-northeast-news","tag-northeastnow","tag-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939909,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939908\/revisions\/939909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}