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A man exits a foot bridge over a flooded street after heavy monsoon rains in Guwahati, Assam in 2025. Representative image. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

A strong El Niño demands planning, not panic [Commentary]

Madhavan Nair Rajeevan 3 Jun 2026
Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director General of Meteorology at IMD, and farmers at work in the heat. Images by Kundan Pandey and Dibakar Roy via Pexels.

Both daytime and nighttime temperatures have risen: IMD chief [Interview]

Kundan Pandey 29 May 2026

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

Max Martin 20 May 2026
New growth emerging from a Neuracanthus plant following a surface fire, enclosed in Xerocoma, amid charred grassland vegetation. Image by Adittya Dharap.

Cottony coats and comebacks

Anusha Krishnan 24 Feb 2026
Heavy rains in Kochi, Kerala. Representative image. (AP Photo/ R S Iyer)

Pre-monsoon storms intensify with thunder and flash floods

Max Martin 24 Feb 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
To find out how well the toads themselves recognise mating colour signals, researchers recorded the skin colours of toads gathered at a rock pool and fed the data into a computer model that simulated toad vision, revealing they could easily detect the contrast between yellow males and the brown females. Image by Susanne Stückler and Doris Preininger.

Male toads get a monsoon makeover to stand out from the crowd

Sandhya Sekar 23 Oct 2025
Nyenchen Tanglha peak in central Tibet. Image by McKay Savage via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

The tectonic journey of the roof of the world [Commentary]

C.P. Rajendran 18 Aug 2025
Striped tigers congregate in Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Maharashtra. Image by Dr. Raju Kasambe via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why are butterflies migrating across the Indian peninsula? [Explainer]

Sandhya Sekar 12 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
Rescue operation underway by the Himachal Pradesh State Disaster Response Force at Khaniyara Manuni Khad in Kangra district. Photos by Himachal Pradesh SDRF via X.

Flash flood risk in three Himachal districts as heavy rain continues

Manish Chandra Mishra 30 Jun 2025
Rainfall in Kerala. The convergence of neutral ENSO conditions, active internal dynamics, and warming seas points to a monsoon that may be wetter but potentially more volatile. Image by Paul Varuni via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

As a wetter monsoon looms, scientists watch the climate chessboard; farmers measure rainfall

Max Martin 8 May 2025
Traditional fishers on small craft prefer to finish work early before the sun gets too harsh. A crew lands their fibreglass boat at Thumba village on the city's fringes. Image by Max Martin.

Kerala’s early heat surge signals climate shift

Max Martin 25 Feb 2025

[Interview] Climate scientist M.N. Rajeevan’s dream book explains rainstorms, longer monsoon seasons, highlights forecast challenges

Max Martin 7 Jan 2025
Scientists place a portable climate observatory, across an open-water lead in the Arctic in December 2020. Image by Lianna Nixon-Alfred-Wegener Institut via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

[Commentary] The risk of a potential circulation change in the Atlantic adds to climate worries

C.P. Rajendran 21 Nov 2024

Changing rainfall patterns impact agriculture in the Indo-Gangetic Plain

Sneha Mahale 16 Oct 2024

The climate drivers behind southwest India’s intensifying heat waves

Max Martin 3 Sep 2024

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

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 20 Aug 2024

Deficient monsoon rainfall hits paddy farmers in parts of north India

Nidhi Jamwal 16 Aug 2024