Even as Sikkim introduces climate change disaster studies as part of its school curriculum to aid community preparedness, latest research emphasises the need for the state to be equipped with…
Hundreds of women with painted earthen pots on their heads joined the march to a venue in the outskirts of Gambharikhol, a village in Daspalla block of Odisha’s Nayagarh district.…
At nights, cities are often hotter than the suburbs or the countryside. They become ‘islands’ of higher temperature within a larger rural landscape, in a phenomenon called the urban heat…
The Rajiv Gandhi government had passed its prime when I started practising journalism in 1987. Even though by then the political situation was getting difficult for Gandhi, he had laid…
From a bird’s eye view, this animal’s extensive presence in the snow-clad alpine and the subalpine Himalayas makes the landscape look like a crumpled white sheet punctuated with shaggy black…
On a warm January afternoon, as the world stepped into a new decade, several hundred students in Kerala took a pledge to protect the environment. “For the sake of the…
Technology and crowdsourced data have played a role in disaster management in multiple instances in India. However, disaster-related mobile apps have not yet taken off as a resource among users.…
Greta Thunberg was not born when the international climate change negotiations started in 1992. She, along with more than 40% of the world population, were born after the complex negotiations…
The United Nations climate conference in Madrid, Spain, closed last week without resolving one of the most significant objectives it set out to achieve – setting rules for carbon markets…
What is a COP? The Conference of Parties, or CoP, is the annual meeting of the representatives from the countries that are members of the United Nations Framework Convention on…
The year 2019 concludes a decade of exceptional global heat and high-impact weather, the World Meteorological Organisation said in a statement, underscoring the delayed onset and withdrawal of Indian monsoon…
Off the coast of Red Skin Island in the Andamans, it was a colourful world that marine biologist Vardhan Patankar dived into in the summer of 2016. Here, corals wore…
The FridaysforFuture campaign for school strikes led by Swedish climate activist 16-year-old Greta Thunberg and her peers highlights the importance of treating climate change as an urgent issue. The theme…
The wounds of the 2018 floods had not fully healed when disaster struck Kerala again in August 2019 in the form of floods, landslips and debris slide. According to the…
As the United Nations secretary-general calls for countries to ramp up climate action, India demands the appeal be matched with climate finance to developing countries. The UN Climate Action Summit…
From the time settled agriculture started on the Indian subcontinent millennia ago, there was a dependence on the calendrical reliability of the rains as they sustained the crops. Every year…
Acknowledging that restoration of land affected by desertification, degradation, drought and floods can have long-term benefits for the health and development of society, especially for the livelihoods of the rural…
The picturesque traditional Ladakhi houses made of stones, mud and wood are increasingly finding it difficult to sustain themselves. Wooden roofs that were originally designed to stand amid snow now…
The shola sky islands are a biologist’s delight. Surrounded by lowlands, these highest reaches of Western Ghats in peninsular India host radically different habitats and species. Covered in montane evergreen…
As southwest India finally has a respite from the recent heavy rains, the discussions have now turned to what went wrong. In the district of Kodagu, nine days of non-stop…