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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

Using social media images to better respond to disasters

Arathi Menon 18 Aug 2023
A girl in a flooded area in Pakistan

Flooding caused the greatest economic damages in Asia in 2022, says WMO report

Simrin Sirur 2 Aug 2023

Communication technologies for deep-sea fishers as cyclones intensify in the Arabian Sea

Max Martin, Sindhu Nepolean 24 Jul 2023

[Explainer] As heat waves increase, are India’s Heat Action Plans effective?

Zoya Ada Hussain 24 Jul 2023

Sikkim reels under water woes, faces the hottest June

Nabarun Guha 28 Jun 2023

As temperatures increase, India’s solar sector feels the heat

Arathi Menon 21 Jun 2023

This year’s severe heatwave, a threat to the people and food supply in Bangladesh

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 8 May 2023

Making sense of rainfall changes in Karnataka’s coffee estates through old records

Arathi Menon 1 Dec 2022
Chennai city flooded after Cyclone Nivar in 2020.

[Explainer] What is Loss and Damage?

Mahima Jain 31 Oct 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
cyclone-fani-barricade

Extreme flooding from intense cyclones to affect more people in India, Bangladesh

Sahana Ghosh 20 Jul 2022

Maharashtra’s cashew farmers hit hard by unseasonal rain, temperature and pests

Arvind Shukla 14 Jul 2022
Authorities in Kashmir, over the years, have been advising farmers to shift to alternate crops. Photo by Umer Asif.

Dual threat of drought-like conditions and flash floods puts Kashmir Valley’s food security at risk

Zubair Amin 12 Jul 2022
The lack of data on the reasons behind the rapid intensification of tropical cyclones in the north Indian Ocean is a research gap that needs immediate attention, as per experts.

Understanding cyclone behaviour in a changing climate

Sahana Ghosh 11 Jul 2022

[Interview] More research about relationship between flash floods and climate change needed

Abu Siddique 7 Jul 2022
40% of the Sundarbans support short-statured mangroves which were widely affected by cyclone Amphan.

Recording mangrove damage from cyclones in the Sundarbans

Sahana Ghosh 27 Jun 2022
Image shows a black and white image of cyclone Bhola

[Explainer] What are tropical cyclones? How are they formed?

Phalguni Ranjan 1 Jun 2022