Cloudbursts flood parts of India, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh; monsoon reaches Pakistan well ahead of schedule

The government’s first comprehensive study of climate change impacts and forecasts paints a grim picture if greenhouse gas emissions are not controlled soon

Skin infections plague the residents of Majuli during floods, but the closest hospital is two-and-a-half hours away by boat

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

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

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

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”

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

A surging sea and collapsing huts led to at least 25 deaths in the very first moments

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