Hidden Water Crisis Behind India’s Dominance In Sugar Industry
On a cold morning in the early winter of 2019, Shekhar Chauhan reached his small sugarcane farm to start a...
Climate Change
Floods Eat Away At Assam’s Indigenous Land
Hemram Pegu has been forced to rebuild his home at least eight times in the past decade, shifting it a...
The Lament Of The Brahmaputra Riverbank
Songs have always chronicled social, political, historic, geographical, cultural and environmental change. Many popular singers have responded to the climate...
The Life Of A Researcher Studying Springs In The Himalayas
It is a rocky, uneven path down to the spring where the women of Damthang village in South Sikkim go...
On Climate Justice, India Should Practise What It Preaches
The first ever draft resolution to include climate change in the mandate of the United Nations Security Council was vetoed...
Supertyphoon Rai ‘Exceeded All Predictions’
The rapid intensification that turned this week's Typhoon Rai into the strongest storm to hit the Philippines this year surpassed...
Himalayan Glaciers Melting At An ‘Exceptional Rate’: Study
Glaciers in the Himalayas are melting at an "exceptional" rate because of global warming, threatening the water supply of millions...
‘The Nutmeg’s Curse’ Challenges Dominant View Of Development
(Book Review by Joydeep Gupta) I did not ‘like’ The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh. I have a strong suspicion...
Major Collapse Of West Antarctica’s Ice Sheet Can Be Averted
(The Conversation: with Dan Lowry, Ice Sheet & Climate Modeller, GNS Science; Mario Krapp, Environmental Data Scientist, GNS Science; Nick...
Climate Action In 2022: What’s Next For South, Central And SE Asia?
Many Asian countries made net-zero pledges at COP26 in Glasgow last month, but most were vague and opaque. The big...
Ships In Arctic Are Leaving Behind Garbage, Warn Scientists
Following another year of stark climate impacts in the Arctic, scientists warned on Tuesday of a new scourge hitting the...
Climate Change Worsened Extreme Weather Events In 2021
Extreme weather events in 2021 shattered records around the globe. Hundreds died in storms and heatwaves. Farmers struggled with drought,...
Polluters Risk Litigation If They Fail To Address Loss And Damage
Thirty years ago, Vanuatu first brought the harms being caused by climate change to the international community’s attention. As the...
Explainer: What Is Regenerative Agriculture?
"Regeneration" is a buzzword in the agriculture sector and beyond. It’s the subject of a Netflix documentary, Kiss the Ground,...
How B’desh Is Beating The Odds On Climate Disaster Deaths
When Cyclone Bhola hit what is now present-day Bangladesh in 1970, it killed 300,000 to 500,000 people. Among the dead...
UNOCHA Says Current Warming Trajectory Will Lead To Humanitarian Crisis
Between 2000 and 2019, over 7,000 disasters were recorded worldwide, an 83% rise on the previous two decades. There was...
Why India Is Neglecting Its Methane Problem
Last month at COP26 in Glasgow, more than 100 countries pledged to reduce global methane emissions by 30% by the...
UN Projects Soaring World Humanitarian Needs In 2022
The United Nations is predicting that a record 274 million people, who together would amount to the world's fourth most-populous...
World’s Underground Fungal Life To Be Mapped For First Time
Scientists have unveiled plans to map the world's huge underground webs of fungi for the first time, to identify hotspots...
What Record Warm Winters Mean For Glaciers In Everest Region
In late winter 2020, glaciologist Sudip Thakuri visited Kalinchowk, a peak in the Himalayas around 144 km west of Kathmandu....
Oil Firms Face Workforce Crunch As Renewable Energy Beckons
The oil and gas industry risks a huge workforce shortage as more than half of the workers in the sector...
COP26: Key Outcomes From A ‘Fragile Win’
After running over by a day, negotiators at COP26 finally reached agreement on a “Glasgow Climate Pact” on 13 November....
Springs Dying Across Himachal Pradesh
The population of Mundaghat village in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh has come down to half of what it...
Other Species Pose A Threat To Antarctica’s Fragile Ecosystem
(The Conversation: By Dana M Bergstrom, Principal Research Scientist, University of Wollongong and Shavawn Donoghue, Adjunct Researcher, University of Tasmania)...
Only 1.2% Of Top Firms Make Major Climate Disclosures
Little more than one percent of 5,000 big companies globally are making substantial disclosures of their climate risks, while more...
