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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

Krishna AchutaRao, climate scientist who pioneered attribution research in India, dies at 62 [Obituary]

Simrin Sirur 10 Sep 2026
Survivors walk past a house damaged by flash floods on the banks of Trishuli river in Devighat, Nuwakot district, Nepal on September 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Why is disaster risk increasing in the Himalayas? [Explainer]

Max Martin 8 Sep 2026
The Indian Ocean along the Sri Lankan coastline. Image by Sarmat Batagov via Pexels.

Why do changes in the Indian Ocean matter? [Explainer]

Bharti Dharapuram 20 Aug 2026
Drang Drung glacier in the Zanskar Himalayas. Image by Andrew Mackintosh.

Ladakh glaciers losing speed as ice melts, new study warns

Simrin Sirur 18 Aug 2026
The devastating impacts of the famine on people in then Bellary district, Madras, illustrated for The Graphic (a British weekly newspaper) published on October 6, 1877. Illustration by Horace Harral courtesy of National Portrait Gallery via Public Domain.

Volcanoes, El Niño and colonial policies fuelled two deadly famines in India

Karthik Vinod 30 Jul 2026
Tso Moriri lake during the summer, when the lake thaws and vegetation grows. Image by Raghavan37 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

In high altitude soils, microbes may be limiting the warming they trigger

Lekha Bandopadhyay 10 Jul 2026
Manjara Dam in Marathwada region, Maharashtra, dries up completely during a drought in 2016. Representative image. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

As El Niño develops, India turns to coal to offset lower hydropower

Kundan Pandey 10 Jul 2026
Municipal workers rescue fish from a dried lake at Ratanpura in Ahmadabad, Gujarat, during a drought in 2016. Representative image. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

El Niño forecast increases likelihood of weak monsoon and water stress

Phalguni Ranjan 18 Jun 2026
The 2023 Beas floods washed away a segment of the Manali-Leh Highway, with the snow-capped peaks near the Beas Kund glacier visible in the background in Manali. Image by Sumit Mahar/Himdhara Collective.

Climate resilience in Himachal begins with spatial planning [Commentary]

Prateek Draik 16 Jun 2026
Researchers at Rulung Glacier in Ladakh. Image by Purushottam Kumar Garg.

Climate-driven glacier melt could reshape water quality downstream

Hirra Azmat 9 Jun 2026
A man exits a foot bridge over a flooded street after heavy monsoon rains in Guwahati, Assam in 2025. Representative image. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

A strong El Niño demands planning, not panic [Commentary]

Madhavan Nair Rajeevan 3 Jun 2026

Decoding Heat

Mongabay.com 2 Jun 2026
Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director General of Meteorology at IMD, and farmers at work in the heat. Images by Kundan Pandey and Dibakar Roy via Pexels.

Both daytime and nighttime temperatures have risen: IMD chief [Interview]

Kundan Pandey 29 May 2026

Local land-atmosphere processes influence heatwaves

T. V. Padma 21 May 2026

What a warming Pacific could mean for India’s monsoon and farming

Max Martin 20 May 2026
State Disaster Response Force personnel head to rescue affected people after heavy rainfall in Guwahati in April 2026. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

While the world hesitates, India must continue leading on climate [Commentary]

Minal Pathak, Vaibhav Chaturvedi 12 May 2026
Labourers sleep on a road median in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in the summer of 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

India’s heat crisis is a labour, health and finance challenge, says white paper

Manish Chandra Mishra 5 May 2026