Himanshu Pegu, a resident of Silchar in India’s northeastern Assam state, is one of many forced to live in a…
On 22 June this year, the government declared a flood alarm in the Kashmir valley, after water levels rose at Sangam…
Heavy rain combined with melting snow can be a destructive combination. In mid-June 2022, storms dumped up to 5 inches…
The first half of 2022 has seen South Asia hit by both severe heatwaves and heavy flooding. The latest flashpoints…
Every year, around this time, life comes to a complete standstill in Assam, pounded by relentless rain and subsequent landslides…
On the edge of the National Highway 31 in Assam, where floodwater had completely submerged the paddy fields, 43-year-old Rahisuddin…
Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5…
The best of traditional and modern approaches can support each other to avoid droughts becoming disasters. Human-caused climate change seems…
The flood situation in the northeast took a turn for the worse on Friday as incessant rainfall pounded parts of…
The monsoon rains had doused the brutal summer heatwave, and the season of fertility and hope had started in north…
Bundelkhand, a region shared by the massive Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, is often in the news…
Rains over the weekend brought some relief from a sweltering heatwave to northern India, but temperatures are projected to rise…
Super cyclones, known as hurricanes or typhoons in different parts of the world, are among the most destructive weather events…
On colour-coded temperature charts, the Indian subcontinent is currently a sickly mauve. An unusually intense heatwave is threatening millions of…
Habidul Islam plans to never move away again from the place where he grew up. He is from the village…
It was around 5 AM on 19 October 2021, dark, drizzling and cold in the foothills of the Himalayas. “A…
After devastating floods struck the northeastern Indian state of Bihar in August 2017, the country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, conducted…
In many ways, 2021 marked a new threshold for climate change-related disasters. Global headlines were monopolised by incidents of extreme…
The Indian Parliamentary Standing Committee report on water resources released on 3 August looks at water issues from the lens…
Over the past three decades, the severity of both droughts and floods has increased in the state of Assam. In…
Ratan Pathuri watches floodwater swirl below his veranda. The swollen Dhansiri River has inundated Pathuri’s village, Nikori, in the district…
A total of 129 people have died in rain-related incidents in Maharashtra in 48 hours, a senior state disaster management…
The death toll from devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium rose above 90 on Friday, as the…
Days before the monsoon hits the eastern Indian state of Bihar, farmers wait for rains and floods with trepidation. This…
Under the weight of a suspected avalanche, a massive chunk of ice and frozen mud broke away from a glacier…
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