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

Max Martin 7 Jan 2025

[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
A series of recent long-period swell surge events on the coast of Kerala and southwestern Tamil Nadu has damaged properties and killed people. Image courtesy of Vincy Lopez.

Swell waves hit southwestern coast hard as remote oceans turn stormier

Max Martin 27 May 2024

Why south Tamil Nadu received record-breaking rain during the northeast monsoon

Laasya Shekhar 10 Jan 2024
A truck trying to cross the river in Himachal Pradesh.

Monsoon left widespread destruction and uneasy questions in Himachal

Vivek Gupta 26 Sep 2023

[Interview] Ocean processes influence monsoon, but it’s not always climate change, says M.N. Rajeevan

Max Martin 8 Aug 2023
Fishers land a small boat at Muthalappozhi harbour. Photo by Sajith Remady.

Artisanal fishers deploy communication technologies to stay safe during the monsoon

Max Martin, Sindhu Nepolean 13 Jul 2023
Image shows a cloudy sky at sunset in West Bengal, India

Isotopic technique to record rainfall data can boost monsoon prediction

Archita Bhatta 9 Nov 2022
A house flooded in Kerala during the floods of 2018.

Risk-informed planning essential to prevent floods in Kochi

Supriya Vohra 15 Sep 2022
The vast expanse of roiling grey clouds advances from the Arabian sea and makes landfall in Kerala, around the first week of June, kickstarting the southwest monsoon season. Photo by Anoop Joy/ Flickr.

[Explainer] How does the Indian monsoon develop?

Anusha Krishnan 30 May 2022
M. Venkatarami Reddy, a farmer from village of Nerabilu gram panchayat falls in Yerravaripalem mandal of Tirupati district, at his 22-acre mango farm showing the fall in yield this year. Photo by G Ram Mohan.

Unprecedented rainfall and pesticide usage lead to low mango yields in Andhra Pradesh districts

G. Ram Mohan 24 May 2022

[Explainer] What factors affect the Indian summer monsoon?

Anusha Krishnan 29 Apr 2022

Floods less likely to be severe when cyclones hit dry land before monsoons, finds study

Sahana Ghosh 30 Mar 2022
Embankment work is going on Bagmati river near Belwa. Photo- WRD Bihar/Facebook

Farmers, near Bagmati river in Bihar, pick fertility of land over safety from floods

Pushyamitra 20 Apr 2021

A journey through the clouds to improve Indian monsoon forecast

Sahana Ghosh 5 Mar 2020