Watch: What does summer of 2024 have in store for India? Heatwaves, rising temperatures, says IMD
The warning for hot temperatures and heatwaves comes at a time when the El Nino event in the equatorial Pacific Ocean is in its waning phase
Food India: Six recipes to beat the heat
DTE brings you some recipes from our foodbook; they are soothing for the summers, high on nutrition, even medicinal. Here's wishing you …
Climate atlas finds summers, winters in India to get warmer, Kharif season to see more rainfall
Report by thinktank presents historical trends from 1990–2019 and projects future ones
More than 40 rivers have dried so far in Bihar, even as summer is yet to peak
However, the issue of water crisis is missing in the ongoing Lok Sabha election campaign
Neptune’s summer temperature drops dramatically. What may have caused this?
Scientists had expected the planet to slowly grow warmer, not colder
Amid COVID-19, doubts raised over hosting of Tokyo Summer Olympics
The Tokyo Summer Olympics are scheduled to be held from July 24, 2020
Pre-summer rains: How the charm of Chandigarh endures
Every year, the ‘City Beautiful’ located between the Siwaliks and the Indus Plain, plays host to a game between heat, cold, dust and …
'The Olympic Charter contradicts many indigenous physical activities'
Down To Earth speaks to Christian Wacker, president, International Society of Olympic Historians, about indigenous people at the Olympics
Sizzling summer: IMD forecasts ‘above normal’ temperatures in most of India for April-June
The average rainfall during April across India will most likely be normal
Madhya Pradesh farmers were craving rain; now they fear too much of it
Rainfall status yo-yos from 23% deficit to 20% excess in a month
Cool dwellings: Here is what you can do to make your building beat the heat
‘Shade, insulate and ventilate’ should be the mantra for achieving ‘thermally comfortable’ buildings
What is the summer solstice? An astronomer explains
It brings the longest day and shortest night of the year for the 88 per cent of Earth’s people who live in the Northern Hemisphere
Book Excerpt: India’s love affair with vetiver
From ‘khus’ mats to ‘sharbat’, the humble but beloved vetiver has found its way into the daily rhythms of life in …
Simply Put: Heatwave 2024
What is COVID-19 signaling about building design for healthy living?
The possibility that our air-conditioned and cooled living spaces may make coronavirus comfortable and spread needs to be well understood to spur …
Heatwave: Passing phase or a natural calamity?
It is time heatwaves are treated as a natural calamity and some form of compensation system is devised while investing more in creating more …
What’s next after monsoon's arrival in Kerala
The progress of this year’s monsoon is likely to be delayed in some parts of India
What would the ancient Greeks think of an Olympics with no fans?
In many ways, they’d view the prospect as absurd
What happens to your body in a heatstroke?
Here are all the symptoms to help you identify a heatstroke if you or anyone around you has one and what should you do to treat it
Simply Put: Lok Sabha Elections 2024
Is India ready: CSE finds worrying signs of heat stress
Summer 2022 was 2nd-hottest since 2010; now monsoon leaving it behind
The Tokyo Games prove that the Olympics are less relevant than ever
Our world is on fire, a pandemic rages on and the rich keep getting richer. In such a context, how can the Tokyo Olympics be anything other than …
With low water reserves, a blistering Indian summer
The water levels in Indian reservoirs are at levels lower than they have been in nearly a decade, and as the summer approaches, it looks like it …
Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi among the states bracing for hotter summer this year
Normal heat wave-like conditions will prevail over the country’s core heat wave zone, which includes northern and central India
The Mediterranean is warming three times more than the oceans: Study
The warming is twice as fast in inland and high areas
