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A series of recent long-period swell surge events on the coast of Kerala and southwestern Tamil Nadu has damaged properties and killed people. Image courtesy of Vincy Lopez.

Swell waves hit southwestern coast hard as remote oceans turn stormier

Max Martin 27 May 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

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