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What goes into an editorial illustration? [Interview]

Saumitra Shinde 24 Jul 2025

How informal workers made weather warnings more effective this summer

Anuja 22 Jul 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
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
A fruit stall selling a variety of mangoes. Higher temperatures during fruiting season can not only affect colour and texture, but even shrink mangoes. Farmers say customers refuse to pay the same price for smaller, defective fruits, resulting in a loss for sellers and farmers. Representative image by Divya Kilikar/Mongabay.

Heatwaves, extreme temperatures threaten the king of mangoes

Lisann Dias 20 May 2025
A delivery agent at work. Representative image by Rowan Freeman via Unsplash.

Urban commons shape the lives of India’s gig workers [Commentary]

Nupur Khanter 14 May 2025
A wild dog sunbathing in Kanha National Park. Image by Abhiraj1996 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

What is heat stress? How does it affect animal hormones? [Explainer]

Phalguni Ranjan 18 Apr 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

With intense and recurring heat waves, AC market grows

Vishal Kumar Jain 5 Jul 2024

[Commentary] Unified action needed to tackle extreme heat and air pollution

Annanya Mahajan, Tamanna Dalal 24 Jun 2024

[Photos] Women, heat and informal housing

Almaas Masood 17 Apr 2024

[Explainer] What’s causing mass fish death in India’s ponds and lakes?

Ananya Vyas 19 Jul 2022

[Illustrations] Why are temperatures within a city’s neighbourhoods different?

Alisha Vasudev 6 Jul 2022

[Photos] Maharashtra’s female farm workforce struggles in the shadows of floods

Sanket Jain 23 Jun 2022
Traffic jam at Saribal. Photo by Mike Prince/ Wikimedia Commons.

North India’s hills are feeling the heat too, but differently

Archana Singh 27 May 2022

[Explainer] What are urban heat islands?

Anusha Krishnan 13 Apr 2022

Staying indoors in heat-vulnerable, low-income neighbourhoods

Sahana Ghosh 9 Apr 2020

Large parts of India have warmed, hit by frequent hot days, say climate scientists

Sahana Ghosh 11 Mar 2020