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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
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
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
A farmer grazer her cattle. Image by Mahesh Maske.

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

Soumya Swaminathan 1 Oct 2026

Reviving Himachal’s traditional Kath-Kuni homes to beat the heat

Rachna Verma 17 Sep 2026
Labourers carry firewood, as smoke rises from a bricks factory on the outskirts of Jammu. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

BRICS declaration calls for climate action while recognising fossil fuel role

Kundan Pandey 15 Sep 2026
Houses damaged by recent flash floods stand amid thick layers of sludge, mud and debris in Nepal's Nuwakot district, September 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Nepal’s flood claim tests whether a nascent climate fund can deliver

Kundan Pandey 14 Sep 2026

How a village in Bastar is stopping forest fires

Prakhar Dobhal, Swara Garge 10 Sep 2026
People stand on remnants of a bridge which spanned across Trishuli river and was washed away in flash floods, in Dhading district. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Nepal’s flood disaster puts its hydropower-first strategy, exports to the test

Rudra Pangeni 10 Sep 2026
A farmer stands on a parched paddy field near Jammu in 2014. Representative image. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

El Niño brings drought declaration into sharper focus

Simrin Sirur 3 Sep 2026
A man wades through floodwaters after days of torrential rains in Kampur, Assam in June 2025. (AP Photo)

Going beyond the annual flood response with district level plans [Commentary]

Promit Mookherjee 27 Aug 2026
With its embankment breached and the basin choked with silt, Keshav Yadav’s farm pond remains dry, leaving Yadav without any means to irrigate his Rabi crops after erratic rainfall. Image by Shivam Bharadwaj.

When farm ponds fail to hold water

Shivam Bhardwaj 26 Aug 2026
An uprooted tree and debris lies beside a road in the aftermath of cyclone Biparjoy in Kutch district, Gujarat in 2023. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

India started measuring climate readiness of cities, then stalled [Commentary]

Ravikant Joshi 21 Aug 2026
Residents sleep on the roof of their home near Versova beach to escape the indoor heat as humid conditions persist amid a delayed monsoon in Mumbai, Maharashtra in June this year. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Rising temperatures could intensify humid heat during India’s monsoon

Nivedhika Krishnan 20 Aug 2026
A worker clears weeds from Dal lake in Srinagar, Kashmir. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

The fraught politics and ethics of climate rankings [Commentary]

Chirag Dhara 14 Aug 2026
A woman cools herself off with an ice pack during a heat wave in Banda, Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Heatwaves and lightning notified as national disasters, government says

Simrin Sirur 7 Aug 2026