Future forecasts

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Wildfire burn scars can intensify and even trigger thunderstorms, leading to catastrophic flooding. Here’s how

Lack of vegetation, reduced soil moisture and lower surface albedo contribute to the potential for burn scars to fuel thunderstorms

Triple whammy: 3 weather systems to cause intense precipitation across India from December 1

Low pressure areas over Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea and western disturbance over Afghanistan likely to induce rain, snow

Uttarakhand Floods: Respect Himalayan landscape if you want to preserve it, say experts

The recent flooding in Uttarakhand will recur across the biodiversity-rich Himalayas; respecting the landscape is the only way to conserve it

Bad weather ahead: Water-related risks can cost 7 large economies $5.6 billion

The United States is projected to incur the highest losses, United Arab Emirates lowest

Current climate reports might have underestimated the consequences of the climate crisis

The models do not consider methane emissions from permafrost thawing and carbon releases from droughts 

State of India’s Environment in figures: India recorded 280 heat wave days across 16 states in 2022 — most in decade

With climate change, such extreme events will become severe, more frequent  

Is Earth Close to “The Great Dying”?

Our “normal” climate is dead; the weather has gone insane, and it is annually killing thousands of Americans and millions of people …

Role of Western disturbances in freak weather events

Scientists reason why the beneficial weather phenomenon has become increasingly disastrous

Food security: Climate change is affecting the seeds that India depends on

An increase in number of days with extreme temperatures or rain has caused a decline in quality and size of seeds across India

'We can contain the pest'

India's temperature and atmospheric conditions are ideal for the spread of Fall Armyworm

Go for inclusive growth

As much as the government works to formalise the Indian economy, conditions force people into illegal and informal business

India lost more than 70,000 people because of climate change-related disasters

A new report by an international thinktank Germanwatch has some bad news for India. It says that between 1998 and 2017, India lost, on an average,…

Cyclone Ockhi first anniversary: Struggling widow, scarred survivor left hopeless

Those who lost their kin to the disaster are finding it hard to make ends meet and ones who made it back alive have still not overcome the mental …

How normal were the rains? IMD chief wants to study more factors to know

With climate change causing changes in annual precipitation and ocean temperature levels, these parameters need to be included in …

Cyclones that have hit India: What you should know?

Here is what you should know about cyclonic activity in India as Cyclone Gaja is going to hit the coast of Tamil Nadu today.

Long-term wind patterns over Delhi have changed, say scientists

A possible reason could be major changes in the withdrawal of monsoon from the region and the anti-cyclonic circulations that are formed in this …

India's climate quandary

The National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture, India's flagship programme that aims to make Indian villages climate-proof, is at …

A peek into Indian monsoon over 8,000 years

A team of Indian researchers has recreated a continuous history of the Indian monsoon, providing new insights into forces governing it

Six rules for rebuilding infrastructure in an era of 'unprecedented' weather events

After extreme weather events like Hurricane Harvey, city planners need to think about the smartest way to rebuild

Hit by extreme winter, Mongolia stares at humanitarian crisis

Livestock deaths due to extreme cold are robbing herders of livelihood, causing mass migration to cities

`We are teetering at the edge of a new era'

It is very hard to understand why we do not seem to grasp the immensity and urgency of climate change that is already unfolding around us, says …

Cyclone Nilofar’s threat to Oman and Gujarat decreases

Cyclone Nilofar to rapidly lose strength from October 30; it may turn into a boon for Gujarat

Clearing the clouds

Scientists are learning that the Indian monsoon is an integral part of the global ecosystem. The knowledge of these 'global teleconnections'…