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Himalayas losing glaciers and snow: more hazards in the offing, a new study finds

Arathi Menon 25 Jul 2023

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

Zoya Ada Hussain 24 Jul 2023

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

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 8 May 2023

How past warm and cold spells in the Arctic influenced India’s monsoon

Sahana Ghosh 31 Mar 2023
Image shows a shrub with yellow flowers

Warmer winters in the Kashmir Valley are leading to early flowering of the gul toor

Hirra Azmat 25 Jan 2023

How Assam’s Mising community is coping with floods through architectural design

Sanskrita Bharadwaj 23 Jan 2023
Western Ghats in Kerala. Photo by Shagil Kannur/Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists aim to study how aerosols impact rainfall in the Western Ghats, but it’s complicated

Mohit M. Rao 1 Dec 2022

[Commentary] Lifestyle For Environment is a noble concept, but needs a holistic approach

Dipak Anand, G.V. Gopi 18 Nov 2022

World falters in containing climate crisis as negotiators head to Egypt for UN summit

Soumya Sarkar 4 Nov 2022

Soaring temperatures, black carbon impact glaciers in Drass region of Ladakh

Hirra Azmat 29 Sep 2022

Health effects of heat stress will intensify disproportionately without ambitious efforts

Sahana Ghosh 23 Sep 2022
The coastal communities in Satkhira are heavily dependent on agriculture.

As stronger storms hit, farmers in Bangladesh struggle to pay agricultural loans

Maksuda Aziz 9 Sep 2022
Image shows a twig with two leaves with greenery in the background against an open sky

Reconstructing 90-year-long rainfall history in northeast India using tea garden records

Sahana Ghosh 7 Sep 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
A Sherpa with a yak at the base camp of Sagarmatha.

[Interview] “There are many Sherpas, not known to the outside world, who regularly summit the mountains”

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Aug 2022

Parliamentary discussions related to climate change are largely missing in India, finds study

Sahana Ghosh 5 Aug 2022
During summer months, MGNREGS workers start work before dawn, and try to wrap up before noon. However, such measures aren’t sustainable, say experts. India’s economy is highly dependent on heat-exposed labour with an overwhelming 75% of the labour force, close to 380 million people. Photo by Mahima Jain.

Can MGNREGS work as a social protection scheme for women in heat-stressed areas?

Mahima Jain 2 Aug 2022

Converging heat action plans, climate goals and environmental health for healthier communities

Sahana Ghosh 8 Jul 2022

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

Abu Siddique 7 Jul 2022
A shop set on a raft in Guwahati. Assam has 9.40 percent of the total flood-prone area of the country.

Unprecedented flood cripples Assam, massive loss of life and property reported

Nabarun Guha 30 Jun 2022