What Will An El Niño Bring Next To India?
India’s monsoon was delayed by three weeks this year. This meant far lower rainfall across the subcontinent in early June...
Climate Change
Environmentalists Concerned As Work On Tawi Riverfront Continues
Environmental activists have raised concerns about the government’s Tawi riverfront development project in Jammu and Kashmir stating that it poses...
Medical Processes Hide True Number Of Indians Dying From Extreme Heat
Between 15 and 22 June this year, more than 150 people died in two hospitals in Ballia and Deoria districts,...
Plastiglomerates (Plastic-Rock Hybrids) Found On The Andaman Islands
A study found the formation of plastic-rock hybrids in the intertidal zone of remote beaches of Aves Island in the...
India’s Palm Oil Drive Faces A Reality Check
Palm oil has become essential to India’s food security in the past three decades, replacing other edible oils such as...
Building A New Restoration Economy In India
In recent years, the planet has confronted a series of growing environmental challenges. At the UN, in 2022, the struggles...
Uttarakhand’s Marginalised Farmers Struggle To Adapt To Climate Change
Neema Devi sits with her sister-in-law, Prema Devi, threshing wheat by hand in the village of Dhudholi, in the Indian...
How Droughts Can Leave People With Nowhere To Go
By 2050 around 145 million people in the Global South could be forced to relocate within their own countries due...
Drastic Changes In Himalayas Deserve Political Attention
The key sentence in the most comprehensive report to date on the Hindu Kush Himalayan “cryosphere”, or icy areas, is...
As Temperatures Rise, The Solar Sector Feels The Heat
The frequency and duration of heatwaves have been increasing in India due to global warming. This year too, the month...
How Climate Change Is Making Trees Bigger, But Also Weaker
As global temperatures rise, trees in colder areas are benefiting from an extended growing season. A longer growing season results...
UG Students To Study Climate Change, Threats To Environment
Students pursuing graduation will now have to study subjects like environmental education. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has recently instructed...
Climate Change Is Taking A Toll On Darjeeling’s Tea Gardens
A crisis is unfolding quietly, behind the serenity of Darjeeling's world-famous tea gardens. Climate change is affecting the production of...
Erratic, Unpredictable Weather: The New Normal For India Now?
This year, a large proportion of Indians living in the central, western and south western parts of the country heaved...
Cyclone Biparjoy Underscores Climate Threats Facing India, Pak
As disaster management authorities in both Gujarat in India and Sindh in Pakistan evacuate coastal residents, issue alerts, and earmark...
“Justice” Takes Centrestage In The Latest Earth Commission Report
The latest Earth Commission Report attached a “justice” framework to its earlier discourse of “safe” planetary boundaries, which are the...
Reporting The Weather Amid A Climate Crisis
With an El Nino weather cycle set to amplify temperature extremes, TV meteorologists have a vital role in communicating the...
Sinking Himalayas: Why Geologists In Sikkim Fear Joshimath-Like Disasters
After the natural disaster in Joshimath, Uttarakhand, geologists and activists working on environmental protection in Sikkim are a worried lot. Like...
Reduce Noise To Safeguard Marine Species: UN Report
Noise pollution is known to cause significant disturbance to marine wildlife, including migratory species protected under the Convention on the...
What Is Organic Food And How To Identify It
You might have seen organic food products at your local grocery store. But what is the process that goes into...
Climate Change’s Dangerous New Fires
Heatwaves have been going through some extraordinary changes in recent history. Since midway through the 20th century, their intensity, frequency...
India’s Heat Action Plans Ignore The Vulnerable
Researchers have stated that climate change made the heatwave that hit Bangladesh, India, Thailand and Laos in April 2023 at...
Experts Warn Of Harsher Heatwaves In India
A recent UN report has suggested that the next five years could be the hottest on record as global temperatures...
Women’s Resistance & Rebellion: What Greek Mythology Teaches Us
After some hard-fought victories, women’s rights are threatened again in many parts of the world. In the United States, the...
How Climate Change Worsens Avalanches In The Himalayas
In recent months, numerous reports of dangerous avalanches in the Himalayas have made the headlines. These sudden releases of snow,...
