Climate Change May Worsen Floods In Mumbai And Chennai
For all flood-prone cities of India, there is an urgent need to develop flood inundation maps. Although Bollywood films are...
Climate Change
Is The Earth Really Getting Too Hot For People To Survive?
Many countries have seen extremely hot weather lately, but in most of the inhabited world, it’s never going to get...
Climate Change Adds To Water Woes In The Andaman Islands
As clouds gathered on the horizon one morning in late May, the residents of Kadamtala in India’s Andaman Islands were...
India And Pak May Bicker, But Climate Disasters Won’t Wait
Pakistan-India relations are so often described as hostile that it is easy to lose track of the few efforts at...
Kolkata’s Overlooked Air Pollution Crisis
Delhi’s air pollution problems often receive global attention, but Kolkata’s air quality often ranks among the world’s worst. Data show...
How To Build A Circular Economy
Microfactories, an innovative approach to extracting value from waste materials, point the way to sustainable production and consumption. At a...
Farmers Pin Hopes On New Agri Calendar
Faced with multiple extreme weather events, Wayanad farmers create a new agricultural calendar harnessing traditional farming knowledge in a bid...
Urban Growth Fuels Warming In Indian Cities
Cities in India are warming at a rate almost twice that of the surrounding non-urban and rural areas, influenced by...
Climate Change Deepens North-South Divide In India
India’s new government has to resolve tensions over climate disaster compensation between the Union government and its southern states. India's...
Cutting Forests For Solar Energy ‘Misses The Plot’ On Climate Action
In many places, solar power projects are being sited on natural forestlands, even in America’s greenest state, Vermont. This ignores...
Dwindling Forest Commons Leave Tribals With Little To Celebrate
Many tribal rituals and festivals in Odisha’s Koraput district are rooted in the collection and consumption of shared natural resources...
Is BJP Downplaying Climate Change?
India is in the midst of a massive general election lasting over a month and a half and involving nearly...
Asia’s Extreme April Heat Worsened By Climate Change, Says Study
According to rapid attribution analysis by an international team of leading climate scientists from the World Weather Attribution group, extreme...
Climate Change Is Hardly A Burning Issue For Indian Voters
The expectation for Indian politicians to 'be with the people' now encompasses standing with them through their lived experiences of...
MDBs Must Prioritize Clean & Community-Led Energy Projects
Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), governments, and corporations across 160 countries consider or approve more than one investment per day in...
Commentary: The Heat Is On, From Poll Booths To Weather Stations
Parts of India are facing a heatwave, for which the Kerala heat is a curtain raiser. Kerala experienced its first...
Eco-anxiety Soars As Planet Health Plummets
Climate anxiety, ecological anxiety, eco-anxiety, or environmental anxiety are umbrella terms used to describe a spectrum of mental and emotional...
Nature Conservation Works And We’re Getting Better At It
To work in nature conservation is to battle a headwind of bad news. When the overwhelming picture indicates the natural...
Climate Change Poses Dire Health And Human Rights Risks
Climate change has not traditionally been seen as a health and human rights concern — but that may be changing...
How Climate Change Is Killing Us, In More Ways Than One
We’ve all heard about climate change’s effect on our planet — but do you know about the many ways it...
Bengaluru Rings Alarm Bells For Urban Water Concerns
Amidst a water crisis in Bengaluru, experts advocate optimal water use, effective recycling and recharging of water bodies. Smart, synergistic...
Reaching For Urban Prosperity: A Public Space Opportunity
Cities serve as the engines and drivers of economic growth. They sit at the nexus of infrastructural and human resources,...
Integrating Climate Diplomacy & Water Mgmt In South Asia
Water in South Asia has always had a complicated history, right from early civilisations to the present day, where rivers...
Early Warning: Sharing Tech To Combat Climate Change In South Asia
Early in 2023, monsoon rains hit hard in Nepal’s Koshi Province. The cascading nature of the flood damaged hydropower infrastructure...
Who Are Today’s Climate Activists? Dispelling Three Big Myths
As Earth Month 2024 gets underway, climate activists around the world are planning rallies and other events over the coming...
