Rashpinder Singh, 36, is a farmer who owns 17 acres (almost seven hectares) of land in the state of Punjab.…
The effects of climate change are already being felt across the world. As temperatures continue to rise, South Asia is…
The Arctic is heating up more than four times faster than the rate of global warming, according to a new…
Every day during the summer months, Kamlawati Yadav wakes up at 6 am and walks half a kilometre to a…
Heavy rain combined with melting snow can be a destructive combination. In mid-June 2022, storms dumped up to 5 inches…
Heat waves are becoming supercharged as the climate changes, lasting longer, becoming more frequent and getting just plain hotter. One…
The first half of 2022 has seen South Asia hit by both severe heatwaves and heavy flooding. The latest flashpoints…
As the world is struggling to combat climate change, one idea – planting trees – seems to be taking hold…
Every year, around this time, life comes to a complete standstill in Assam, pounded by relentless rain and subsequent landslides…
Sitting in a semi-circle in the yard outside of a village school in Nepal, a group of farmers share their…
On the edge of the National Highway 31 in Assam, where floodwater had completely submerged the paddy fields, 43-year-old Rahisuddin…
"Kicking the can", “pointing fingers”, and “divorced from climate impacts” were descriptions used by observers to describe progress at the…
Satellite images of the Sundarbans mangroves along the Bay of Bengal, that capture changes before and after tropical cyclones, are…
Myanmar is one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries. It is highly exposed to extreme weather such as cyclones, flooding…
The desire by people in richer countries for a diverse range of out-of-season produce imported from overseas is driving up…
Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5…
The best of traditional and modern approaches can support each other to avoid droughts becoming disasters. Human-caused climate change seems…
Putting a price on carbon is seen by many as the ultimate solution to compel countries to reduce their heat-trapping…
The monsoon rains had doused the brutal summer heatwave, and the season of fertility and hope had started in north…
The fight against climate change is also a fight for the right to education of girls, millions of whom lose…
Bundelkhand, a region shared by the massive Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, is often in the news…
The Kashmir valley suffered a devastating flood in September 2014. After an unusually high level of rainfall, the fact that…
Super cyclones, the most intense form of tropical storms, are likely to have a much more devastating impact on people…
Ten major rivers flow down from the Hindu Kush Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau. Their basins cover most of Asia,…
Rains over the weekend brought some relief from a sweltering heatwave to northern India, but temperatures are projected to rise…
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