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‘We cannot hold peace talks at gunpoint’: Security build-up deepens distrust over dam

Ranju Dodum 6 Nov 2026

As wars reshape priorities, climate cooperation faces a test at the UN Climate Summit

Soumya Sarkar 6 Nov 2026
A vegetable vendor sits beside air coolers outside a shop in Banda, Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

El Niño link offers early warning of humid heat

Archita Bhatta 4 Nov 2026
A rescue worker near excavators at the core disaster-hit area at Gyirong Port following the August 26 mudslide on September 6, 2026. (Tingshu Wang/Pool photo via AP)

Scientists explore whether Himalayan disasters can be anticipated

Max Martin 30 Oct 2026
Snow trout caught in the Himalayas. Representative image by Matthew Laird Acred via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Snow trout needs more than reintroduction to survive

Sameeksha Sharma 29 Oct 2026
A flooded field in Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. Image by Sameeksha Sharma.

Farmers prepare for low rain but get floods instead

Sameeksha Sharma 27 Oct 2026

UN Loss and Damage Fund provisionally approves $21.6 million for flood-hit Nepal

Simrin Sirur 26 Oct 2026
Residents of Satyanarayanpur village in South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, push their boat into the waters of Sundarbans. Sea level rise is eating away at the islands of the Sundarbans in India and Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

The Sundarbans at the crossroads of climate change and human survival [Commentary]

C.P. Rajendran 26 Oct 2026
A light aircraft such as a Cessna, fitted with flare racks that can burn substances at appropriate altitudes, is used to release aerosol particles into clouds for cloud seeding. Representative image by Christian Jansky via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5).

Cloud seeding’s potential to ease drought is uncertain

Nikhil Sreekandan 23 Oct 2026
Workers install solar panels on the rooftop of a home in Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

India’s new climate targets must navigate geopolitical uncertainty [Commentary]

Vaibhav Chaturvedi, Pallavi Das 20 Oct 2026
Baby Titus inside a neighbour's house that has been wrecked by floods. Image by Arathi M.R.

The emotional cost of displacement

Arathi M.R. 9 Oct 2026
A woman wades through floodwaters to collect drinking water near her submerged house in Jorhat, Assam in August 2026. (AP Photo/Parikhit Saikia)

A changing climate is reshaping India’s infectious disease risks

Rupsy Khurana 8 Oct 2026
An ibisbill tagged and fitted with satellite PTT. Image by Khursheed Ahmad.

Climate change may increase the ibisbill’s habitat range, but other pressures loom

Hirra Azmat 5 Oct 2026
A farmer grazer her cattle. Image by Mahesh Maske.

Maharashtra formally recognises women farmers regardless of land ownership [Commentary]

Soumya Swaminathan 1 Oct 2026
Duttaphyrnus phawngpui sp. nov. Image courtesy of Dawngliana et al.

New toad species described in northeast mountain tops

Divya Kilikar 30 Sep 2026
A coal mine in Dhanbad, Jharkhand. Representative image by Vikash Singh via Pexels.

India’s coking coal push needs a methane plan [Commentary]

Purva Jain, Saumya Nautiyal 29 Sep 2026
Fishermen at work in Kochi, Kerala. Image by Vyacheslav Argenberg via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

El Niño, the monsoon, and the confusion of Kerala’s fishers [Commentary]

John Kurien 25 Sep 2026
Concretising tree bases weakens them makes trees more vulnerable to falling during extreme weather events. A single week in July saw 902 trees being uprooted as rains fell. Image courtesy of Mumbai Citizen for Trees.

As city trees fall, experts point to poor planning and civic apathy

Esha Lohia 23 Sep 2026
Rains in central India. Representative image by Ms Sarah Welch via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

El Niño brings drought and extreme rain together

Kundan Pandey 22 Sep 2026
A view of the Himalayas and Indus river in Pakistan, April 1968. The Indus Water Treaty was signed in 1960. (AP Photo/JMG)

Indus Waters Treaty needs modernisation, experts say amid deadlock

Simrin Sirur 17 Sep 2026