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Labourers sleep on a road median in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in the summer of 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

India’s heat crisis is a labour, health and finance challenge, says white paper

Manish Chandra Mishra 5 May 2026
The drying Tunga River in Karnataka during summer. Representative image by Lenin Moorthy via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Riverine heatwaves are on the rise

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 4 May 2026
A waste picker drinks water while working during a heat wave at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Jammu. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Cities may heat up disproportionately faster than rural neighbours, even at 2°C warming

Manish Chandra Mishra 20 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
Raika community members walk with their camels. Image by Aishwarya Mohanty.

Three filmmakers and their urgent stories about the environment and health

Kartik Chandramouli 11 Dec 2025
Mechanised farming equipmen such as drum seeders, mechanical weeders, and reapers reduce physical effort and time in the field. Image by IRRI.

Sunny days, zero returns, climate change leaves women farmers tired and broke

Mahima Jain 24 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 man applies reflective paint to the roof of a house to cool the indoors in Ahmedabad. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

A whole-system approach to cooling in a warming world [Commentary]

Prima Madan, Akash Goenka 25 Aug 2025
A gig worker in Noida. Many gig workers in the National Capital Region were sceptical about the impact of the NDMA advisory. Image by Kundan Pandey.

Gig work heats up, disaster body steps in with advisory

Kundan Pandey 5 Aug 2025
Saplings planted alongside Buddha Nullah in Ludhiana. Image by Manu Moudgil.

A heat map-based plantation programme turns into a missed opportunity

Manu Moudgil, Simrin Sirur 18 Jul 2025

Surviving a heat stroke, one year later

Simrin Sirur 27 Jun 2025
As summer heat intensifies each year, studies find that tin and cement roofs increase indoor heat stress in rural households. Image by Premsagar Tasgaonkar.

Too hot to handle as rural houses turn heat traps

Arathi Menon 23 Jun 2025

Heat action crumbles when it needs cross-department coordination, says report

Simrin Sirur 27 Mar 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

When heat rises, incomes fall for the informal workforce

T. V. Padma 3 Jan 2025

The climate drivers behind southwest India’s intensifying heat waves

Max Martin 3 Sep 2024
Rajiya, a resident of Kishan Kunj, a slum in east Delhi, stands on her home’s roof where she has spread damp jute bags to create cooling indoors. Image by Vandana K for Mongabay India.

Extreme heat compounds vulnerabilities in low income neighbourhoods

Vandana K. 27 Jun 2024
An auto driver seen standing in the shade in Connaught Place while waiting for a cusotmer to arrive. Photo by Pallavi Ghosh

Heat wave hits earnings, health of auto rickshaw drivers

Pallavi Ghosh 3 Jun 2024

Women-led initiative offers relief to women dairy farmers battling heat stress

Laasya Shekhar 10 May 2024

Indian Ocean headed for a near-permanent state of marine heat wave

Nidhi Jamwal 29 Apr 2024