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Indian tunnel rescue team making progress at Chilime and Langtang hydropower sites.
Climate Change

Nepal floods expose climate finance delay: GCF took seven years to approve glacier-risk project while lenders backed hydropower in vulnerable basin

Jayanta Basu
7 min read
Campaigners say delay in approving Nepal’s $49.9 million glacier resilience proposal left high-risk communities waiting for protection, even as ADB, IFC, China’s Exim Bank and other lenders financed h ...
Climate change is strengthening El Niño, corals reveal
Climate Change

Climate change is strengthening El Niño, corals reveal

Himanshu Nitnaware
4 min read
Big El Niño events of the last 40 years are not normal in the context of the last thousand years, according to study
Low pressure areas, western disturbances cause most rainfall in one of the warmest August months
Climate Change

Low pressure areas, western disturbances cause most rainfall in one of the warmest August months

Akshit Sangomla
3 min read
Even with intense rainfall over eastern, east-central, northwestern parts, India saw a 16.3% rainfall deficit in August
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