Climate Change Is Akin To White Colonisation Of The Atmosphere
'Climate change is racist'. So reads the title of a recent book by British journalist Jeremy Williams. While this title...
Climate Change
Govt Ignores Own Warnings In Frail Himalayas
A week after a flash flood swept away pilgrims and their tents near the Hindu pilgrimage site of Amarnath at...
Climate Change Drives Down Yields & Nutrition Of Indian Crops
Rashpinder Singh, 36, is a farmer who owns 17 acres (almost seven hectares) of land in the state of Punjab....
Loss & Damage & What It Means For South Asia
The effects of climate change are already being felt across the world. As temperatures continue to rise, South Asia is...
Arctic Heating Up 4 Times Faster Than Global Warming: Study
The Arctic is heating up more than four times faster than the rate of global warming, according to a new...
Women’s Lives Get Harder In Bundelkhand As Water Scarcity Grows
Every day during the summer months, Kamlawati Yadav wakes up at 6 am and walks half a kilometre to a...
Climate Change Is Making Flooding Worse
Heavy rain combined with melting snow can be a destructive combination. In mid-June 2022, storms dumped up to 5 inches...
How Hot Is Too Hot For The Human Body?
Heat waves are becoming supercharged as the climate changes, lasting longer, becoming more frequent and getting just plain hotter. One...
Stalled Monsoon Behind Devastating Floods In NE India, B’desh
The first half of 2022 has seen South Asia hit by both severe heatwaves and heavy flooding. The latest flashpoints...
Can Planting Trees Mitigate Climate Change?
As the world is struggling to combat climate change, one idea – planting trees – seems to be taking hold...
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 relentless rain and subsequent landslides...
Heatwaves Threaten SA’s Women Farmers
Sitting in a semi-circle in the yard outside of a village school in Nepal, a group of farmers share their...
Floods In Assam Lead To Massive Destruction, Cripple Life
On the edge of the National Highway 31 in Assam, where floodwater had completely submerged the paddy fields, 43-year-old Rahisuddin...
Bonn Climate Talks End In ‘Empty Pages’
"Kicking the can", “pointing fingers”, and “divorced from climate impacts” were descriptions used by observers to describe progress at the...
Recording Mangrove Damage From Cyclones In The Sundarbans
Satellite images of the Sundarbans mangroves along the Bay of Bengal, that capture changes before and after tropical cyclones, are...
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 weather such as cyclones, flooding...
Eating Local To Tackle The Climate Crisis
The desire by people in richer countries for a diverse range of out-of-season produce imported from overseas is driving up...
Floods: Millions Marooned In India, B’desh
Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5...
How Will We Live With Limited Freshwater?
The best of traditional and modern approaches can support each other to avoid droughts becoming disasters. Human-caused climate change seems...
Can Carbon Markets Help Halt Climate Change?
Putting a price on carbon is seen by many as the ultimate solution to compel countries to reduce their heat-trapping...
Floods Disrupt Monsoon Weddings In Bihar
The monsoon rains had doused the brutal summer heatwave, and the season of fertility and hope had started in north...
Girls’ Education Is A Climate Solution: Malala
The fight against climate change is also a fight for the right to education of girls, millions of whom lose...
Walking In The Shadow Of MP’s Massive Floods
Bundelkhand, a region shared by the massive Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, is often in the news...
Monsoon Rainfall Increases In Kashmir, Raising Flood Fears
The Kashmir valley suffered a devastating flood in September 2014. After an unusually high level of rainfall, the fact that...
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 more devastating impact on people...
