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A man rows past a bus partly submerged in flood water in Rishikesh in June 2013. Extreme rain during the monsoon led to flash floods, cloudbursts and landslides during this time in the Western Himalayas. (AP Photo)

What are cloudbursts? Why do they occur and how can cloudburst risks be reduced? [Explainer]

Max Martin 27 Aug 2025

Soot from the plains results in drastic glacier loss in the Himalayas

Soumya Sarkar 4 Aug 2025
Sulochana Gadgil by Ministry of Earth Sciences via Facebook. Monsoon in the Western Ghats by KV 192 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Sulochana Gadgil: The woman who chased clouds [Obituary]

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 28 Jul 2025
Blood glucose testing being conducted in a clinic in Kolkata. Representative image by Biswarup Ganguly via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

Overlooking climate change impacts may affect diabetes treatment in India

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 10 Jul 2025
Caves in the Morteratsch-Pers glacier complex. Image by Lander Van Tricht (ETH Zurich/Vrije Universiteit Brussel).

Stabilised global warming will still leave 39% of glaciers lost

Simrin Sirur 3 Jul 2025

Climate misinformation leads people to lose hope and faith in science: report

Aditi Tandon 1 Jul 2025
Ram Nivas, Rekha and another farmer sort green beans in Samaspur village. Image by Rishabh Ojha.

Weather forecasting improves but access remains uneven for farmers

Rituparna Palit 27 Jun 2025

Using Indian languages for environmental reporting

Saumitra Shinde 10 Jun 2025
Researchers conduct fieldwork on the Trambau Glacier in Rolwaling region, Nepal in 2019. Image by Koji Fujita (Nagoya University).

World set to lose 39% of glaciers, says study

Simrin Sirur 6 Jun 2025
Study authors conducting field work at the Makum coalfield in Assam. Image courtesy of Harshita Bhatia.

Fossil study takes a leaf out of climate history to predict ecological changes

Arathi Menon 5 May 2025
Drilling equipment is lowered onto a site that was part of the research from 2016-19, which found that ice temperatures in Khumbu Glacier were warmer than expected. Image by University of Leeds Press Office.

Digging into icy depths to understand glacial melt

Meena Menon 24 Apr 2025

Flood risk study of Himalayan valley highlights unregulated tourism as a cause

Arathi Menon 29 Jul 2024

[Charts] What is the 1.5°C ‘target’?

Simrin Sirur 4 Mar 2024

Prolonged dry weather impacts J&K’s key sectors, forests, glaciers and water bodies

Mudassir Kuloo 22 Jan 2024

[Video] Assessing daily weather from India’s highest meteorological station

Manish Chandra Mishra 12 Oct 2023
At the National Expo XIII (in 2009) that organised by the 'Central Calcutta Science & Cultural Organisation for Youth' at North 24 Parganas. Photo by Biswarup Ganguly/ Wikimedia Commons.

[Explainer] Why do we use jargon when talking about science?

Anusha Krishnan 26 Jun 2023

“Justice” takes centrestage in the latest Earth Commission report

Arathi Menon 13 Jun 2023

Nature-based learning programmes improve environment and climate literacy in Chennai

Aparna Ganesan 25 Apr 2023
Sandra Diaz, Argentine ecologist and co-chair of the IPBES Global Assessment, says that the indirect drivers of change such as the way we consume, eat, use energy, trade, and the ideas we have of what is a fulfilling life, impact nature. Photo by Casa Rosada (Argentina Presidency of the Nation)/Wikimedia Commons.

[Interview] IPBES scientist Sandra Diaz on the need for bold targets to tackle biodiversity loss

Sahana Ghosh 15 Dec 2022

[Podcast] Imprints: Lake and archive diving with Atreyee Bhattacharya

Sahana Ghosh, Kartik Chandramouli 9 Dec 2022