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What is non-economic loss and damage? [Explainer]

Priyanka Shankar 20 Oct 2025
A saw-scaled viper (Echis carinatus). Image by Rohit via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India’s snakes changing range, thanks to climate change

T. V. Padma 17 Oct 2025
A farmer shows his soybean crops damaged by the heavy rains. About 1.75 million (17.5 lakh) hectares of farmland across Sambhajinagar, Jalna, Beed, Latur, Parbhani, Dharashiv and Hingoli districts, has been damaged, according to the government data. Image by Yash Pawar.

Intense rains inundate farms in region known for droughts

Suraj Patke 2 Oct 2025
A boy carries a gas cylinder to a rescue boat from his inundated kitchen in Mantripukhri, Imphal East district in June 2024. Image by Ningthoujam Victor.

Floods in Manipur worsened by human activities and climate pressures

Donald Takhell 1 Oct 2025

Intense rainfall spotlights the fault in Kolkata’s aging, clogged drainage systems

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 30 Sep 2025

India’s urban-rural air quality divide

Bharti Dharapuram 15 Sep 2025
A physically disabled man rests as commuters cross a waterlogged street in 2013 in Guwahati. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Is India’s disaster preparedness inclusive enough?

Aisiri Amin 29 Aug 2025
A man rows past a bus partly submerged in flood water in Rishikesh in June 2013. Extreme rain during the monsoon led to flash floods, cloudbursts and landslides during this time in the Western Himalayas. (AP Photo)

What are cloudbursts? Why do they occur and how can cloudburst risks be reduced? [Explainer]

Max Martin 27 Aug 2025
A man applies reflective paint to the roof of a house to cool the indoors in Ahmedabad. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

A whole-system approach to cooling in a warming world [Commentary]

Prima Madan, Akash Goenka 25 Aug 2025
A municipal worker helps a man push his bike through a waterlogged road following heavy rains in Mumbai. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Mumbai reels under relentless rain

Kundan Pandey 20 Aug 2025
A view of paddy fields during harvest in Srinagar. Image by Bilal Bahadur.

Erratic weather, overgrazing and land use change deepen fodder shortage

Hirra Azmat 18 Aug 2025

V.B. Ajayakumar: A relentless voice for human rights and climate justice [Obituary]

Arathi Menon 5 Aug 2025
An aerial view of Tabo village in Spiti, with the monastery visible on the right. Image by Manish Pathak via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Safeguarding vulnerable heritage sites from extreme and erratic weather

Manu Moudgil 31 Jul 2025
Sulochana Gadgil by Ministry of Earth Sciences via Facebook. Monsoon in the Western Ghats by KV 192 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Sulochana Gadgil: The woman who chased clouds [Obituary]

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 28 Jul 2025

How informal workers made weather warnings more effective this summer

Anuja 22 Jul 2025
Blood glucose testing being conducted in a clinic in Kolkata. Representative image by Biswarup Ganguly via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

Overlooking climate change impacts may affect diabetes treatment in India

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 10 Jul 2025
Caves in the Morteratsch-Pers glacier complex. Image by Lander Van Tricht (ETH Zurich/Vrije Universiteit Brussel).

Stabilised global warming will still leave 39% of glaciers lost

Simrin Sirur 3 Jul 2025

Unreliable snow threatens winter tourism

Hirra Azmat 30 Jun 2025
Ram Nivas, Rekha and another farmer sort green beans in Samaspur village. Image by Rishabh Ojha.

Weather forecasting improves but access remains uneven for farmers

Rituparna Palit 27 Jun 2025

Most Indians worried about extreme weather or related impacts: survey

Aditi Tandon 18 Jun 2025