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At a football match in Ladakh's Climate Cup 2024. Image by Phachuks.

A football tournament kicks off conversations about sports and climate

Priyanka Shankar, Saumitra Shinde 14 Oct 2024

[Explainer] What is micro irrigation?

Vandana K. 10 Sep 2024
Yaks transporting essentials to Everest Base Camp. These animals play a key role in agrobiodiversity conservation, maintaining high rangeland ecosystems, cultural traditions, livelihood strategies, and socioeconomic development in the high mountain areas of the Himalayas. Image courtesy of Chencho Dema.

Climate change affects mating in yaks; breeding season shifts

Nidhi Jamwal 7 Aug 2024

Kancha Sherpa, a member of the first successful expedition to Everest, is worried. Here’s why.

Nidhi Jamwal 25 Jun 2024

India will go to vote amid sweltering heat; experts call for public awareness to mitigate impacts

Simrin Sirur 5 Apr 2024

Navigating trade and the role of WTO at COP28

Kundan Pandey 24 Nov 2023

RBI report examines implications of climate change on economic growth and financial stability

Kundan Pandey 11 May 2023

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

Sahana Ghosh 31 Mar 2023

Hydropower projects vulnerable to warming climate and increased precipitation

Manish Kumar 29 Mar 2023
Aditi Mukherji interacting with farmers during her visit in northern Bangladesh. Photo by IWMI.

[Interview] IPCC author Aditi Mukherji on energy transition in agriculture and water security

Sahana Ghosh 22 Mar 2023

[Podcast] Imprints: Lake and archive diving with Atreyee Bhattacharya

Sahana Ghosh and Kartik Chandramouli 9 Dec 2022
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
As per the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 40% of the agriculture in India is dependent on rain. The constant variations in rainfall pattern will impact the sector and India's food production. Photo by Leo Sebastian (IRRI-Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security)/Flickr

A year of extreme weather events has weighed heavy on India’s agricultural sector

Vivek Gupta 7 Nov 2022

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

Hirra Azmat 29 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
Image shows a lake under overcast skies in India

A hope for climate-focused urban planning in Assam’s cities reeling from severe floods

Sanskrita Bharadwaj 10 Aug 2022
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Extreme flooding from intense cyclones to affect more people in India, Bangladesh

Sahana Ghosh 20 Jul 2022
Namche Bazaar. Photo by Superkent/ Pixabay.

How an underground phenomenon triggered by global warming is damaging the Himalayas

Arathi Menon 16 Jun 2022
The Mangrave: A community art project by The Earthivist Collective highlights the plight of this important ecosystem on the outskirts of Panaji. Photo by The Earthivist Collective

[Commentary] A city on marsh: Why Indian coastal cities need to design and build with nature

Aaron Savio Lobo, Ashali Bhandari, Karthikeyan Kuppu 22 Mar 2022
Trees uprooted by Cyclone Hudhud in a residential area of Visakhapatnam. Photo by Indian Navy.

Plan adaptation and mitigation to factor in growing risk of compound extremes, study suggests

Sahana Ghosh 21 Mar 2022