Sinking cities: Two ways to fight land subsidence
Artificial recharge and deep soil mixing are two techniques showing promise in rescuing sinking cities
Climate disaster: Wave of drought-induced cholera in Kenya
Acute water shortage & rationing due to prolonged droughts led to poor sanitation, cholera outbreaks across Africa
Have cyclones in monsoon become the new ‘normal’?
The tropical cyclones of category 4 have wind speeds between 157 and 200 kilometres per hour
Climate change’s dangerous new fires
Climate change is creating a new kind of dangerous wildfire. It will take all our tools to keep communities safe
Don’t blame just climate change; ‘haor’ destruction also behind Sylhet floods: Experts
Sylhet’s traditional wetlands, which act as sponges absorbing surface runoff, have been destroyed, thereby enabling the current floods, they say
Monsoon 2022: Expect a delay, first 2 months may be dry
The slow progress may lead to water scarcity, food insecurity and humid heat, especially for north-west India
IPCC Report 2021: What do we expect in future?
The rise in average surface temperature beyond 1.5 or 2°C will be breached much earlier; extreme weather events may become worse with time
Floods, heavy rains killed 100,000 in 65 years, caused loss of Rs 4 lakh crore
The Standing Committee on Water Resources has asked the central government to take responsibility of flood management in the country
Agriculture ministry set to get its disaster management plan soon: MHA official
The plan identifies 34 hazards that pose a risk to the agricultural sector and where timely interventions are needed, the official said
India to witness severe food inflation due to extreme weather
The record-breaking vegetable price rise indicates an era of high food inflation in coming years
Factsheet: Loss and damage and liablity
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the debate on the link between extreme weather-related events and climate change
How hot weather and climate change affect airline flights
Major airports around the world will see more frequent flight restrictions in the coming decades because of increasingly common hot temperatures
Future is in our hands
We can make or break it, depending on whether we stand up and are counted or let markets drive democracies
Droughts, flooding rains already more likely as climate change plays havoc with Pacific weather
New research shows that global warming has already begun to exacerbate extremes of rainfall in the Pacific region
Fiji feels devastating effects of Winston
Experts linked the cyclone to global warming, saying that the extreme-weather event pointed to climate change
Insure farmers to ensure future
Let’s leave for the moment the questions why these extreme weather events are happening in our world with greater frequency and intensity. …
Rainfall, snow expected in northern India over weekend
A variety of weather events will be witnessed in India in the coming week
‘There will be a day when we will be able to predict quakes’
Enough strain has accumulated in the Nepal region to cause a great earthquake. But how big it is going to be and when it is going to occur is a …
Moody monsoon floods Bihar, Northeast, keeps rest of India dry
The erratic nature of the monsoon coupled with the faulty methodology of presenting rainfall statistics are misleading people
The day the sea raged in
Bangladesh's early warning system had already warned those vulnerable on the coastline and helped limit the usually terrible human toll to a minimum
The model man
Whether it is his well-known monsoon model or his new population model, Vasant Gowarikar enjoys defying the classical definitions of a specialist.…
Chaos theory?
Science takes on nature as climatologists try to predict El Nio patterns in an attempt to warn governments of climatic anomalies
Changing weather
Changes in climatic trends may be part of a decade-long pattern known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation
Snooping on the rain
Indian scientists have embarked on the final leg of an ambitious voyage to unravel the mysteries of the monsoon
Spike in sea temperatures, cyclones increase in Indian Ocean region: Report
Temperature rise 0.3°C higher than the global average of 0.7°C; last two years see significant rise in number, intensity and …