Bite into bitters

Maharashtra tribals’ way of warding off monsoon maladies

Rains at bay

A new study says that river-linking will affect monsoons in the country

Monsoon, sans rain

The Science and Impacts of Climate Change

Ramesh Sharma, campaign coordinator at Ekta Parisha, discusses the impacts of climate change on agriculture in the Baigachak community of …

Chinese caves throw light on Asian monsoons

Will the monsoon reach Kerala on time?

Citizens baffled as weather forecasters are divided over monsoon’s onset dates   

‘Don’t plug this hole’

Residents protest housing projects on lake in Mumbai suburb  

Rain check

Derailment of climate action will be catastrophic for India

With major GHG emitter backing off, any action to combat climate change will be insufficient, and that's not good news for India

Will El Nino strike?

Australian Met department says climatic indicators for the phenomenon have eased

Megadrought demystified

Two major lakes dried up in Africa in the most severe drought recorded in 50,000 years

A large, large catchment

Pacific and the Atlantic oceans: key controllers of monsoons

Stalled monsoon to make little progress before June 25

In spite of unfavourable conditions, IMD expects a major progress of the monsoon in Central India

India to see hotter than normal summer in 2016: IMD

The outlook has also warned of an increased probability of heat waves across the country during the summer as the prevailing El Nino weakens

Monsoon earlyburly

Ocean's surface temperature may help predict monsoon

Washout

Rain, floods disrupt life in north and east India

It is not a drought

As they say, drought is a disaster one can see coming. Deficit monsoon creates situations for a drought. But it is not deficit monsoon, rather …

How is fodder crisis rendering livestock vulnerable?

Today, India faces an acute fodder shortage that has left drought-hit farmers and livestock vulnerable. Jitendra finds out how fodder crisis has …

Science & Technology - Briefs

Mumbai geared for monsoon?

What monsoon means

Flooding out arsenic

The monsoons help decontaminate paddy soils

No insurance against fraud

Private weather forecasting agencies are prone to fudging data in the absence of a regulatory authority

Spate of neglect