Extreme weather events led to 8 deaths, destroyed almost 390,000 hectares of cropped area in Jan-Feb 2023

Haryana saw most damage to cropped area; Karnataka saw extreme cold events after a gap of over four decades

डाउन टू अर्थ विश्लेषण: साल 2022 में 365 में से 314 दिन हुई मौसम की अप्रत्याशित घटनाएं

2022 में 314 दिन मौसम की अप्रत्याशित घटनाओं के कारण 3,026 लोगों क…

लुटता हिमालय: जनसंख्या के बढ़ते दबाव ने बढ़ाई मुश्किलें

1971 से लेकर 2021 के बीच 12 हिमालयी राज्यों की कुल जनसंख्या में �…

India experienced an extreme weather event on 314 of 365 days last year

The events from January 1 to December 31, 2022, claimed 3,026 lives, affected 1.96 million hectares of crop area, 423,249 houses and killed over …

3,026 people, 2 million ha crops: How 314 days of extreme weather events affected India in 2022

Highest number of people were killed in central India, largest crop area damaged in South Peninsula

Extreme weather in India: Heavy rains, floods on 18 days of rainfall-deficient November 2022

The events in November were spread across 12 states / Union territories, most of them in South Peninsula & Northwest regions

‘COVID-19 has become endemic in India’

The risk of a future severe wave in the country is very low, says expert

The COVID-19 pandemic turns 3-years-old

As the pandemic enters its fourth year, it is turning endemic

India lost 6 people daily to extreme weather events in October

The month was unusually wet, with 47% more rainfall than the long period average

Doubling trouble: It’s mid-2022; is it good days yet for farm incomes?

The Union government's claim about being on track to double farmers' income sounds hollow as it has not even spent the allocated budget for …

Stockholm+50: Little to cheer

The Stockholm Conference of 1972 had put environmental issues on the global agenda for the first time. Today, over 176 countries have …

Stress signs for water

Three of the world’s top five groundwater-extracting countries are in Asia, with India leading the list. At least 10 states in the country …

Maternal mortality in India: What do the recent figures tell us

Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan have seen the biggest drop in maternal mortality 

More new exits than additions in EPF scheme in last 2 years

This dip could be because small units have closed down during the pandemic, say experts

State of India’s Environment 2021: In Figures (E-book)

This annual e-book in Figures analyses complex issues pertaining to the country’s environment and development. In today's world where …

2021 saw over twice as many COVID-19 cases as 2020, December worst month on record

2021 saw 1.8 times more COVID-19 deaths than 2020 

One out of every two Bihar households is multi-dimensionally poor: NITI Aayog

The share of multi-dimensional poor in Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh is also uncomfortably high, according to NITI Aayog

Fossil fuels: Borrowed time

The world is set to produce over twice the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C

Land degradation in India hurts farmers and forest dwellers the most

More than half of the degraded land in the country is either rainfed farmland, responsible for the food security of the country, or forest land …

Roasted North: Why record-shattering heatwaves are burning the northern hemisphere

The heatwaves in the northern hemisphere are now frequent, early, intense and last longer as seen in Siberia last year and North America this year

India lost 100,000 people to COVID-19 in May alone

Over a third of the country’s total deaths of 315,235 occurred in May

COVID-19: More than half of India still not testing enough, data shows

Data shows that testing is relatively limited to people with high suspicion of COVID-19 and may miss new chains of transmission in the community

We know vaccines are the way out of COVID-19, but how are India’s numbers stacked

India is adding the most to the pandemic’s tally now; yet, the vaccination drive has lost steam before any significant gains

More than half of India’s April COVID-19 deaths were in rural districts

Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, 7 other states / UTs recorded more cases and deaths in rural districts last month

भारत में अप्रैल में कोरोना से हुई मौतों में आधे से ज्यादा मौतें गांवों में हुई

उत्तर प्रदेश, मध्य प्रदेश, बिहार और सात अन्य राज्यों और क…