Case For The Overhaul Of Water Mgmt Mindset
Ten major rivers flow down from the Hindu Kush Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau. Their basins cover most of Asia,...
Climate Change
Twin Crises Of Heat & Floods Expose Neglect
Rains over the weekend brought some relief from a sweltering heatwave to northern India, but temperatures are projected to rise...
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 Uttarakhand, north India. “At least...
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 times more likely, and also...
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 the current heatwave, during which...
Delhi Turns Into Hot Cauldron At 49 Degrees C
A tormenting heatwave swept through the national capital and its neighbouring areas on Sunday with the mercury leaping to 49.2...
Climate Change Is Making Floods Worse Too
Super cyclones, known as hurricanes or typhoons in different parts of the world, are among the most destructive weather events...
Land Degradation: Silence When Alarms Should Be Sounding
In 1992, three UN conventions were established to combat climate change, biodiversity loss and desertification. As their contours were being...
Amazon Deforestation Hits Record For April
Deforestation detected in the Brazilian Amazon broke all records for the month of April, and that followed similar new records...
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 one of the most densely...
Why The Heatwave Has Turned Out The Lights
The heatwave currently bearing down on the Indian subcontinent has made headlines around the world for the threat it poses...
How To Survive A Heatwave
On colour-coded temperature charts, the Indian subcontinent is currently a sickly mauve. An unusually intense heatwave is threatening millions of...
Climate Change: 100 Questions By Scientists
Scientists have identified 100 pressing research questions on climate change and water resources in the Upper Indus Basin (UIB), which...
Climate Change Hits Harvest Of Priciest Morels
Sunning herself on her porch in Koti – a village 28km from the Himachal Pradesh state capital Shimla in the...
Warmer Summers Imperil Antarctic Ice-Shelves
During the Antarctic summer, air temperatures get warm enough to melt snow and ice on the surface of the great...
Climate Change Triggering Global Collapse In Insect Numbers
Insects are critical to the future of our planet. They help to keep pest species under control and break down...
Hospitals In U’khand Struggle To Provide Care Due To Lack Of Water
Every day, the district hospital in Champawat needs at least 67,500 litres of water to function. But as water becomes...
South, Central Asia Reel Under Early Heatwave
For days at a time in early April, people and animals across large swathes of India and Pakistan lay gasping...
Banks Unprepared For Climate Breaking Points
India has always been a land of brutal but predictable weather. Now, the climate crisis is expected to change that,...
IPCC Report: Narrow Path To Avoid Disastrous Climate Change
The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body that brings together the world’s leading...
“World Is On Fast Track To Climate Disaster”
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday warned that time is running out for countries, corporations and others to adopt critical...
UN Panel To Release Report On Efforts To Curb Climate Change
A UN-backed panel was set to release a highly anticipated scientific report on Monday on international efforts to curb climate...
Climate Catastrophe: Carbon Removal Could Help Prevent It
Historically, policies to combat climate change have focused on mitigation: reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. This has not worked. The...
Nepal Himalayas: Climate Change Is A Signal Of Divine Revenge
"There was a red cloud in the sky the other morning,” says Pemba Bhuti Sherpa, a yak herder in the...
Rising Heat Has Severe Implications For Water Security: CSE
The intense heatwave that has gripped large parts of India so early this summer is proof that this is the...
