Early monsoon floods show climate change impact in South Asia
June 29, 2020
Cloudbursts flood parts of India, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh; monsoon reaches Pakistan well ahead of schedule
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June 29, 2020
Cloudbursts flood parts of India, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh; monsoon reaches Pakistan well ahead of schedule
June 17, 2020
The government’s first comprehensive study of climate change impacts and forecasts paints a grim picture if greenhouse gas emissions are not controlled soon
June 10, 2020
Skin infections plague the residents of Majuli during floods, but the closest hospital is two-and-a-half hours away by boat
May 21, 2020
The morning after the strongest cyclone ever to hit West Bengal there is immense devastation, and there is still no news from much of Sundarbans, no electricity in most of Kolkata
May 19, 2020
Thousands of people evacuated from their homes are crammed inside the buildings being used as Covid-19 quarantine centres, because there is no other shelter available
April 20, 2020
After excessive rain and thunderstorms harmed the winter crops, farmers now face the daunting task of gathering their harvest and taking the produce to market without any labourers to help them
September 06, 2019
The divergences between normal rainfall and abnormal rainfall during the Indian monsoon, as illustrated by the India Meteorological Department, are so large as to change the meaning of “normal”
August 23, 2019
Extreme rainfall during the monsoons is the new normal in India, but the ensuing floods killing thousands and displacing millions are partly due to reckless development and inefficient water management
May 21, 2016
A surging sea and collapsing huts led to at least 25 deaths in the very first moments
April 13, 2016
Government and private weather experts have all forecast above average monsoon rainfall in India this year, doubly welcome in a country in the middle of a second successive drought