Climate Change, Poor Planning Behind Assam’s Mounting Flood Ferocity
Every year, around this time, life comes to a complete standstill in Assam, pounded by…
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Heatwaves Threaten SA’s Women Farmers
Sitting in a semi-circle in the yard outside of a village school in Nepal, a…
Floods In Assam Lead To Massive Destruction, Cripple Life
On the edge of the National Highway 31 in Assam, where floodwater had completely submerged…
Bonn Climate Talks End In ‘Empty Pages’
“Kicking the can”, “pointing fingers”, and “divorced from climate impacts” were descriptions used by observers…
Recording Mangrove Damage From Cyclones In The Sundarbans
Satellite images of the Sundarbans mangroves along the Bay of Bengal, that capture changes before…
Climate Change: How Myanmar’s Military Rule Makes It More Vulnerable
Myanmar is one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries. It is highly exposed to extreme…
Eating Local To Tackle The Climate Crisis
The desire by people in richer countries for a diverse range of out-of-season produce imported…
Floods: Millions Marooned In India, B’desh
Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled…
How Will We Live With Limited Freshwater?
The best of traditional and modern approaches can support each other to avoid droughts becoming…
Can Carbon Markets Help Halt Climate Change?
Putting a price on carbon is seen by many as the ultimate solution to compel…
Floods Disrupt Monsoon Weddings In Bihar
The monsoon rains had doused the brutal summer heatwave, and the season of fertility and…
Girls’ Education Is A Climate Solution: Malala
The fight against climate change is also a fight for the right to education of…
Walking In The Shadow Of MP’s Massive Floods
Bundelkhand, a region shared by the massive Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh,…
Monsoon Rainfall Increases In Kashmir, Raising Flood Fears
The Kashmir valley suffered a devastating flood in September 2014. After an unusually high level…
Super Cyclones To Be Much More Devastating In India In Future
Super cyclones, the most intense form of tropical storms, are likely to have a much…
Case For The Overhaul Of Water Mgmt Mindset
Ten major rivers flow down from the Hindu Kush Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau. Their…
Twin Crises Of Heat & Floods Expose Neglect
Rains over the weekend brought some relief from a sweltering heatwave to northern India, but…
North India Caught In Vicious Cycle Of Forest Fires, Heatwaves
Mohan Negi is worried that respiratory conditions are becoming more common across Chamoli district in…
Climate Change: Extreme Heat Waves In India 100 Times More Likely
Climate change has made the record breaking heat waves in India and Pakistan over 100…
Farmers Turn To Millets To Fight Water Stress, Climate Change
India is facing a water and food crisis, exacerbated by extreme climate cycles such as…
Delhi Turns Into Hot Cauldron At 49 Degrees C
A tormenting heatwave swept through the national capital and its neighbouring areas on Sunday with…
Climate Change Is Making Floods Worse Too
Super cyclones, known as hurricanes or typhoons in different parts of the world, are among…
Land Degradation: Silence When Alarms Should Be Sounding
In 1992, three UN conventions were established to combat climate change, biodiversity loss and desertification….
Amazon Deforestation Hits Record For April
Deforestation detected in the Brazilian Amazon broke all records for the month of April, and…
Why India Should Prepare For Extreme Heat In Near Future
An extreme heatwave in India and Pakistan has left more than a billion people in…