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A man pushing his motorbike in a flood in West Bengal.

Early investments in climate resilience could save India billions in disaster management

Simrin Sirur 16 Oct 2025
A physically disabled man rests as commuters cross a waterlogged street in 2013 in Guwahati. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Is India’s disaster preparedness inclusive enough?

Aisiri Amin 29 Aug 2025
A ravaged Dharali after August 5, 2025 flash flood in the Kheer Gad. Image by Hridayesh Joshi

Flash flood in the Himalayas reignites debate on development

Kavita Upadhyay 14 Aug 2025

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

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 20 Aug 2024

[Book review] Chronicle of an ‘ecocide’ foretold

T R Shankar Raman 19 Aug 2024
Hydro project on Dikchu, a tributary of Teesta. Photo by A. J. T. Johnsingh, WWF-India and NCF/Wikimedia Commons.

[Video] Hydropower in the Himalayas and disaster risks

Sadhika Tiwari 12 Jan 2024

[Commentary] Disaster resilience in the built environment

Rama Raghavan 18 Sep 2023

Unplanned, faulty buildings tremble under weather events in the fragile Himalayan regions

Manish Kumar 7 Feb 2023
Civil society members at the project site with banners to protect Mattewara forest and the Sutlej river. Photo by special arrangement.

How Punjab’s civil society prevented an ecological disaster in already polluted Ludhiana

Vivek Gupta 29 Jul 2022

In Odisha’s first solar village, maintenance issues plague the mini solar plant

Manish Kumar 4 Feb 2022

Darjeeling Himalayas gets a people-centric early warning system for landslides

Sahana Ghosh 19 Sep 2018