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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
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
Residents of Satyanarayanpur village in South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, push their boat into the waters of Sundarbans. Sea level rise is eating away at the islands of the Sundarbans in India and Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

The Sundarbans at the crossroads of climate change and human survival [Commentary]

C.P. Rajendran 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
A fish swims through bleached coral reefs in Caribbean waters near Panama in August this year. Representative image. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

As El Niño strengthens, coral reefs face narrow windows for recovery

Max Martin 9 Oct 2026
Baby Titus inside a neighbour's house that has been wrecked by floods. Image by Arathi M.R.

The emotional cost of displacement

Arathi M.R. 9 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
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
Pollution chokes the perennial Rispana river which flows through Dehradun. Image by Kenyum Bagra.

Monsoon amplifies antibiotic resistance gene levels in river water used by residents

Lekha Bandopadhyay 21 Sep 2026
Geeta Devi mud house remains partially submerged in flood water. She worries how long it would hold. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla.

Floods affect millions in Bihar despite rainfall deficit

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 18 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
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
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
A policeman alerts people standing on a bridge to return to higher ground over the swollen Trishuli river in Galchhi, Nepal. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Community-based warning saves lives during Nepal floods

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Sep 2026
Rama Shankar with his family's cattle in Doda Mafi village. Image by Shivam Bhardwaj.

The grass is greener only on paper

Shivam Bhardwaj 4 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
People walk past damage in the aftermath of flash floods in Devighat in Nuwakot district, Nepal on August 27. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Nepal disaster reinforces the need for regional preparedness

Joydeep Gupta 28 Aug 2026