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The road to road resilience is paved with mindful construction and design say experts

Simrin Sirur 1 Aug 2024
A deserted playground and basketball court in Noida. Image by Shweta Thakur Nanda

Hopscotch to heat watch: How climate change is impacting summer play

Shweta Thakur Nanda 29 Jul 2024

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

Arathi Menon 29 Jul 2024

Raising houses above rising flood waters

Arathi Menon 12 Jul 2024

Climate models could be underestimating the impacts of future rainfall in India

Simrin Sirur 4 Jul 2024
A roadside coconut stall in Palakkad, Kerala. Image by Effulgence108 via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).

High temperatures lead to decline in coconut production, spiked prices

Rashi Goel 4 Jul 2024

Uncertainty looms over weather weary weavers

Arathi Menon 3 Jul 2024

Surviving a heat stroke, against all odds

Simrin Sirur 1 Jul 2024

Farmers pin hopes on new agricultural calendar to weather climate variabilities

Arathi Menon 10 Jun 2024
An auto driver seen standing in the shade in Connaught Place while waiting for a cusotmer to arrive. Photo by Pallavi Ghosh

Heat wave hits earnings, health of auto rickshaw drivers

Pallavi Ghosh 3 Jun 2024

Eco-anxiety soars as planet health plummets

Arathi Menon 2 May 2024

Experimenting with shed design to reduce heat stress in livestock, poultry

Simrin Sirur 16 Apr 2024

India will go to vote amid sweltering heat; experts call for public awareness to mitigate impacts

Simrin Sirur 5 Apr 2024

Extreme rainfall events quadrupled in Meghalaya due to climate change, says study

Simrin Sirur 20 Mar 2024

[Charts] What is the 1.5°C ‘target’?

Simrin Sirur 4 Mar 2024

COP28 launches loss and damage fund, but pledges are a drop in the ocean

Simrin Sirur 1 Dec 2023

Six years on, cyclone Ockhi survivors battle lingering mental health impacts

Gowthami Subramaniam 30 Oct 2023

Low, middle income countries have deficits in infrastructure, but high risk of destruction from disasters

Simrin Sirur 18 Oct 2023

As lightning kills 12 in a day, Odisha proposes large-scale palm tree plantations

Aishwarya Mohanty 17 Oct 2023

[Explainer] Why are intense storms and erratic rainfall events becoming more frequent?

Max Martin 20 Sep 2023