Source: AP As glaciers melt and pour massive amounts of water into nearby lakes, 15 million people across the globe…
Literature can tell familiar or unknown histories, but the narrative should be built in ways that develop a writer-reader intimacy,…
Last week, Ladakh-based maverick climate activist Sonam Wangchuk went on a 5-day fast to raise awareness about receding glaciers and…
(Source: PTI) The world will cross the global warming threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius within 10 to 15 years, even…
In many ways, Kolkata is a victim of its own success. Such has been the population growth in India’s ‘first…
The water-loving evergreen tree, hijol, adapted to floodplains, has been traditionally managed over millennia as family and community forest in the…
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is mulling permanently stationing specialised mountaineering teams in the higher reaches of the Himalayas…
Food loss and waste are major problems around the world. When food is tossed aside or allowed to spoil, it…
Ram Sagar, 64, a farmer who lives in Turkauli village of Sitapur district in Uttar Pradesh, lost three and a…
In August 2022, India announced two enhanced climate pledges within an updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) – the commitments each…
Wildfires and flash floods are two of the most visible symptoms of climate change across the Himalayas. The two phenomena…
(Source: PTI) Earth’s average surface temperature in 2022 tied with 2015 as the fifth warmest on record, according to an…
It has become clear that meaningful progress on climate change is not going to be achieved by one person or…
(Source: IANS) By 2070, Indian mangroves will reduce and shift by around 50 per cent, especially in southern India, due…
When 2022 began, there was trepidation about what might happen in at least ten regions. Topping most lists were concerns…
Residents of the ancient pilgrim town of Joshimath were forced to flee their homes in the freezing weather of January…
(Source: PTI) African elephant numbers have dropped from about 26 million in the 1800s to 415,000 today. While this is…
Rivers are the lifeblood for millions of Indians and Bangladeshis. But a radical legal idea to save them from pollution…
Climate change is destabilising the freshwater supply on which all life depends. Multiple disasters in 2022 drove home the point…
Asian countries are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In 2022, the damage across the region from catastrophes…
Communities are being pushed into a reckoning onset by climate change — adapt their way of living to mitigate flood…
Vaping for a day and tossing it away is all the rage. Electronic cigarette sales have boomed in recent years,…
Greater conservation efforts are needed to protect Antarctic ecosystems, and the populations of up to 97 per cent of land-based…
From the foothills of the Himalayas to the islands of the Jamuna River, cultural traditions are being impacted by climate…
When life inside a rainforest is so enchanting, what would life on its roof be like? Where the crown of…
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