Centre draws flak from Parliamentary panel over state of onion silos

The Standing Committee also noted that 51,582.74 million tonnes (MT) of onion had been damaged due to spoilage in the last three years

Extreme weather events led to 8 deaths, destroyed almost 390,000 hectares of cropped area in Jan-Feb 2023

Haryana saw most damage to cropped area; Karnataka saw extreme cold events after a gap of over four decades

Sustainable cold chains can address climate, food crises: UNEP & FAO report

Governments, cold chain stakeholders should collaborate to adopt systems approach, develop national cooling action plans

The cold supply chain can’t reach everywhere — that’s a big problem for equitable COVID-19 vaccination

Indian researchers are using an engineered protein fragment that is tolerant of high temperatures

Punjab's cold storage owners struggle to stay in business

As potato farmers abandon their produce in cold stores for over a year, storage owners are paying from their pockets to dispose old stock and …

Most humans haven’t evolved to cope with the cold, yet we dominate northern climates — here’s why

Sites from settlements such as Boxgrove in West Sussex offer clues about how ancient hominins survived northern climates

Cold waves claimed 76 times as many lives in India as heat waves in 2020

There has been a nearly 2.7 times increase in the number of cold wave days from 2017-2020

Cold, damp and homeless in Delhi

As the national capital shivers in its coldest winter in a century, its homeless crowd around fires on pavements to pass the freezing nights

COVID or the common cold? What to do if you have symptoms this Christmas

COVID, flu and pneumonia still account for a significant proportion of all deaths in many countries

No buyers, shut units: How COVID-19 hit farmers in Bengal’s pineapple hub

Several in Bidhannagar in Bengal’s Darjeeling district resorting to distress sales to pay off loans; others migrating to other cities to …

‘North Atlantic Oscillation may have played a role in this time's cold wave’

Down To Earth speaks to IMD scientist Rajendra Kumar Jenamani about why temperatures dipped so much this winter in spite of its prediction to the …

Cold trap: Severe winter keeps killing Indians as govt drags feet on policy

India recognised cold waves as disaster in 2012. But the country still does not have an effective action plan to mitigate its impact

Just why are tomato prices going north? Dalwai Report offers clues

Issues like cold chain, modern pack houses and pooling points, along with transport arrangements from villages have not been given much attention,…

Damp, snowy weekend ahead: Minimum temperatures to rise, dip again from January 14

Dense fog and cold wave over parts of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar for the next 24 hours

‘A consequential but ultimately tragic figure’: last leader of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev dies aged 91

Like other tragic reformers in history, Gorbachev’s chief legacy is to remind us about what might have been, rather than what subsequently …

‘Let’s get real’: Scientists discover a new way climate change threatens cold-blooded animals

Ectotherms will need even more energy in a warmer world — increasing extinction risk

India’s cold-wave regions to have warm winter: IMD

While the winter season in general will be warm, based on average temperature, the cold-wave regions would be warmer than other regions

Tomato wholesale prices dipped by 54% this year

With 78 per cent dip, Maharashtra recorded the maximum drop in prices followed by Gujarat and Karnataka

Out of danger because the UN said so? Hardly — the Barrier Reef is still in hot water

Incremental efforts to save the reef, such as looking for heat-tolerant “supercorals” or replanting baby coral, now look …

World Bee Day: Climate change may be causing an apple crisis in Himachal and Kashmir this year; here’s how

A decline in native and foreign bees due to change in weather and the use of pesticides means that apple production in both areas may take a hit

State of Extreme Weather: How was January-April 2023 compared to January-April 2022

In the first four months of 2023, at least 33 states/UTs reported extreme weather events. In contrast, 27 states/UTs recorded extreme …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 13, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Does coronavirus spread more easily in cold temperatures? Here’s what we know

Unfortunately, we will only learn exactly how changes in the weather affect the pandemic by living through it

Slumping potato prices hit farmers, but worse is yet to come

Farmers and cold storage owners pay the price of producing and storing bumper crops as wholesale prices dip by 39-50 per cent in December

Wettest May-June in decade hits Kashmir’s cherry growers hard

Farmers growing traditional varieties of cherries are facing more brunt of prolonged precipitation than those growing new varieties