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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
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

Krishna AchutaRao, climate scientist who pioneered attribution research in India, dies at 62 [Obituary]

Simrin Sirur 10 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
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
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
A sambar deer in the forests of the Western Ghats in Chikmagaluru, Karnataka. Image by Anil Sharma via Pexels.

Understanding the true value of forest ecosystem services

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 20 Aug 2026
The Indian Ocean along the Sri Lankan coastline. Image by Sarmat Batagov via Pexels.

Why do changes in the Indian Ocean matter? [Explainer]

Bharti Dharapuram 20 Aug 2026
Drang Drung glacier in the Zanskar Himalayas. Image by Andrew Mackintosh.

Ladakh glaciers losing speed as ice melts, new study warns

Simrin Sirur 18 Aug 2026

Mumbai’s informal settlements struggle to power their homes

Rhea Arora 5 Aug 2026
A yellow-throated fulvetta, a common species at middle elevations in Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary. This bird forms large flocks that co-operatively glean insects off shrubbery. Because leaf-dwelling insects remain seasonally stable, leaf-gleaners like the fulvetta are largely non-migratory. Image by Tarun Menon.

Insects may be guiding seasonal bird movements in the eastern Himalayas, study finds

Manjeera Gowravaram 28 Jul 2026
A farmer shields herself and her child from the sun while working on a field. Image by Votso Sothu via Pexels.

Heat plans must account for age and gender, says UN Women paper

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 21 Jul 2026

What a warming Pacific could mean for India’s monsoon and farming

Max Martin 20 May 2026
A view of the Indian Ocean from the Sri Lankan coast. Rising temperatures in the Arabian Sea intensify extreme weather events, with profound consequences for coastal populations from South Asia to East Africa, Australia, and island nations such as Sri Lanka. Image by Praveenshashika via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Global sea surface temperatures are reaching record highs [Commentary]

C.P. Rajendran 7 Apr 2026
Women walk in forests in Orchha, Chhattisgarh. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Decades of warming and shifting rains are reshaping India’s central forests

Simrin Sirur 13 Mar 2026
The Hindu Kush mountains seen from Pakistan. Image by Ninara via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Review sheds light on how global warming is destabilising the Himalayas

Simrin Sirur 13 Mar 2026
A satellite image shows cyclone Tauktae approaching India's western coast. (NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) via AP)

Study identifies a previously unknown climate rhythm shaping the tropics

Debdutta Paul 27 Jan 2026

Climate change shaped primate populations in northeast India

Anusha Krishnan 23 Dec 2025
An artwork curated as part of Time as a Mother by Damian Christinger and Ravi Agarwal for Serendipity Arts Festival 2023. Ravi's curatorial approach explores the intersections of art, ecology, and climate change. Image by Philippe Calia and Sunil Thakkar/Serendipity Arts Festival. 

Artists reimagine climate change through public art and performances

Shilpa Raina 12 Nov 2025
Industries near Mumbai. Representative image by Sumaira Abdulali via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India tops global rise in emissions, finds UNEP

Manish Chandra Mishra 11 Nov 2025