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[Commentary] Why the Wayanad landslide must not fade from memory

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 20 Aug 2024

Lesson from Wayanad: State needs disaster mitigation rather than a disaster management strategy

Saritha S. Balan 2 Aug 2024

Climate models could be underestimating the impacts of future rainfall in India

Simrin Sirur 4 Jul 2024

Prolonged dry weather impacts J&K’s key sectors, forests, glaciers and water bodies

Mudassir Kuloo 22 Jan 2024

Why south Tamil Nadu received record-breaking rain during the northeast monsoon

Laasya Shekhar 10 Jan 2024

[Explainer] Why are intense storms and erratic rainfall events becoming more frequent?

Max Martin 20 Sep 2023
Image shows a cloudy sky at sunset in West Bengal, India

Isotopic technique to record rainfall data can boost monsoon prediction

Archita Bhatta 9 Nov 2022

Rajasthan is getting wetter and it’s not good news for the desert ecology

Azera Parveen Rahman 21 Oct 2022

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

Abu Siddique 7 Jul 2022
Image shows a black and white image of cyclone Bhola

[Explainer] What are tropical cyclones? How are they formed?

Phalguni Ranjan 1 Jun 2022
The vast expanse of roiling grey clouds advances from the Arabian sea and makes landfall in Kerala, around the first week of June, kickstarting the southwest monsoon season. Photo by Anoop Joy/ Flickr.

[Explainer] How does the Indian monsoon develop?

Anusha Krishnan 30 May 2022
M. Venkatarami Reddy, a farmer from village of Nerabilu gram panchayat falls in Yerravaripalem mandal of Tirupati district, at his 22-acre mango farm showing the fall in yield this year. Photo by G Ram Mohan.

Unprecedented rainfall and pesticide usage lead to low mango yields in Andhra Pradesh districts

G. Ram Mohan 24 May 2022

[Explainer] What factors affect the Indian summer monsoon?

Anusha Krishnan 29 Apr 2022

Floods less likely to be severe when cyclones hit dry land before monsoons, finds study

Sahana Ghosh 30 Mar 2022

Extreme weather becomes the new normal in India’s main monsoon season

Soumya Sarkar 19 Oct 2021

[Commentary] Long term rainfall patterns and flooding in Pune city

Ayushman Singh, Joy Merwin Monteiro and Bejoy K. Thomas 9 Jul 2021

Flash droughts set to increase in India, finds study

Deepa Padmanabhan 16 Feb 2021

Hyderabad floods highlight the need for a disaster mitigation and climate resilience plan

M. Somasekhar 2 Nov 2020
Drought-like situations will become common if the deforestion is not curbed. Credits- Darshak Ithikkat

Rainfall in parts of Karnataka has reduced over decades

Kapil Kajal 2 Sep 2020

There’s more to Kodagu floods than heavy rains

Arathi Menon 17 Aug 2020