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Shifting monsoons: adapting challenges

22 Jul 2025

India is facing a new climate challenge — its shifting monsoon patterns. Highlighting this, a recent study, ‘Weathering the Storm: Managing Monsoons in a Warming Climate’, points out the...

Expanding and melting glacial lakes pose huge dangers

15 Jul 2025

Glacial lakes and water bodies across the Himalayan region have expanded by 11% since 2011, according to a report by India’s Central Water Commission (CWC). The report, highlighted in...

Indian fauna portal records several new entries

08 Jul 2025

India’s faunal database has 683 new entries, including 459 newly-discovered species and 224 species. These findings were published in Animal Discoveries-2024, released recently to mark the Zoological Survey of...

Proper urban green space placing could save lives

01 Jul 2025

Five cities from India were part of a recent study — Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai. Part of a group called the C40 cities, these were among 96...

Revamped Green India Mission a sound move

24 Jun 2025

An updated National Mission for Green India document, highlighting the Mission’s aim to restore degraded forest ecosystems in the Western Ghats, the Himalayas and the Aravalli mountain range was...

India’s solar potential could far exceed previous assessments

18 Jun 2025

A recent study estimates that India’s total solar potential could reach 10,830 gigawatts (GW), far exceeding previous assessments and identifies new opportunities across both conventional and innovative applications of...

Troubling climate, health and development indicators

10 Jun 2025

India is facing a mounting crisis on multiple environmental and development fronts. This is the warning that the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has sounded as a...

Passive cooling solutions to counter oppressive heat conditions

04 Jun 2025

The impact of heat in India has been severe in recent years, with numerous heat-related deaths, widespread reports of heatstroke and school closures reported. This year, the thermometer climbed...

Indian women walk under an umbrella on a hot summer day in Hyderabad, India. File/AFP

Climate impact worries and warnings

27 May 2025

The results of a survey of 10,751 people in India from December 5, 2024, to February 18, 2025, to better understand public experiences and worries about extreme weather events...

Species loss hastened by climate change

21 May 2025

Palaeo climate research shows that past global warming events triggered significant ecological changes, favouring deciduous forests over evergreen ones, according to an analysis by Mongabay-India (MI). The analysis highlights...

Meena Janardhan

Writer/Editor/Consultant. She has over 25 years of experience in the fields of environmental journalism and publishing.

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