Explainer: What Are Ecological Droughts?
India recognises and monitors three types of drought – meteorological, hydrological, and agricultural. Now, some…
India recognises and monitors three types of drought – meteorological, hydrological, and agricultural. Now, some…
Saleemul Huq, who brought to global attention the need to adapt to climate change impacts…
The annual average loss of infrastructure and buildings, due to natural disasters and climate change,…
Floods in Delhi have dominated the news cycle in India for the last week, setting…
Irshad Ahmad, a shopkeeper in the city of Patna, was forced to close his store…
One of the world’s largest work guarantee programmes, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme…
Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is currently not plausible, according to a new…
There was significant progress on finance for climate adaptation at COP27 last month. Governments agreed…
Adaptation to climate change impacts will become impossible unless greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are controlled…
As the world warms, there is an urgent need to find ways to keep people…
The state of Meghalaya, in northeast India, has an acute soil erosion problem. One of…
Over the past three decades, the severity of both droughts and floods has increased in…
Spring 2020 had just begun in the Himalayas but for Kamla Devi, 36, a resident…