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A woman returns from collecting the wood of the dead mangroves from the forest. Photo by Subhrajit Sen/ Mongabay.

Lack of resources slow embankment construction in the Sundarbans

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 11 Nov 2022

[Commentary] Kolkata’s climate action plan needs to be more gender-sensitive

Manoranjan Ghosh 4 Nov 2022
Chennai city flooded after Cyclone Nivar in 2020.

[Explainer] What is Loss and Damage?

Mahima Jain 31 Oct 2022

Health effects of heat stress will intensify disproportionately without ambitious efforts

Sahana Ghosh 23 Sep 2022
The outlet of Pal Bagh Nag. The water traverses through the lawns of many houses situated down the lane, where people also come to wash their clothes. Photo by Amir Bin Rafi.

The potential of Kashmir’s springs for climate resilience

Amir Bin Rafi 12 Sep 2022
Deshbandhu Park in Kolkata, West Bengal, post cyclone Amphan. Photo by Indrajit Das/Wikimedia Commons.

Urgency brews to foreground loss and damage at COP27

Priyanka Shankar 1 Sep 2022

Parliamentary discussions related to climate change are largely missing in India, finds study

Sahana Ghosh 5 Aug 2022
During summer months, MGNREGS workers start work before dawn, and try to wrap up before noon. However, such measures aren’t sustainable, say experts. India’s economy is highly dependent on heat-exposed labour with an overwhelming 75% of the labour force, close to 380 million people. Photo by Mahima Jain.

Can MGNREGS work as a social protection scheme for women in heat-stressed areas?

Mahima Jain 2 Aug 2022
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Extreme flooding from intense cyclones to affect more people in India, Bangladesh

Sahana Ghosh 20 Jul 2022

Converging heat action plans, climate goals and environmental health for healthier communities

Sahana Ghosh 8 Jul 2022
Visitors examine green capsicum at the fully elevated Section 1 of the agrivoltaics plant near Parbhani. Image courtesy of NSEFI & GIZ

Climate Innovations

Mongabay.com 5 Jun 2022

[Commentary] Thirty years after the Rio Summit the green report card is not fully in the red

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 6 May 2022
Image shows smoke rising from a power plant chimney with a setting sun in the background

[Commentary] Speeding up just climate action

Joyashree Roy 13 Apr 2022

Misinformation leads to misperception, polarisation causing delay in climate action: IPCC report

Aditi Tandon 12 Apr 2022
The Mangrave: A community art project by The Earthivist Collective highlights the plight of this important ecosystem on the outskirts of Panaji. Photo by The Earthivist Collective

[Commentary] A city on marsh: Why Indian coastal cities need to design and build with nature

Aaron Savio Lobo, Ashali Bhandari, Karthikeyan Kuppu 22 Mar 2022

[Video] A Kerala village’s quest towards carbon neutrality

Salim Joseph 4 Mar 2022

India’s women and children highly vulnerable to climate change yet missing in climate policies

Azera Parveen Rahman 1 Mar 2022

Stop efforts to dim the Sun and cool Earth, say scientists

Shanna Hanbury 8 Feb 2022

[Commentary] To address climate change, grow and restore soil, not trees

G. Ravikanth, P. Srinivas Vasu, Veena Srinivasan 10 Jan 2022
Pokkudan's children revived the defunct Kallen Pokkudan Mangrove Trust in recent months, formed by their father in 2013 to impart mangrove conservation literacy to society. Photo by Bhavapriya JU.

Editor’s review 2021: Energy transitions, biodiversity-climate change links

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 31 Dec 2021