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India’s future climate resilience will depend on its ability to build a public healthcare system that recognises heat as a highly gendered disaster
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India’s future climate resilience will depend on its ability to build a public healthcare system that recognises heat as a highly gendered disaster

Preethi Lolaksha Nagaveni
5 min read
Women experience heat differently due to physiological, occupational, and socio-economic factors; they cannot be considered an “invisible category” within climate governance
Yakten is mapping its watershed and prepare for the more variable monsoons.
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How a Sikkim village is planning for water security in a changing climate

Aditya Vikram Jain
4 min read
India’s first digital nomad village, Yakten in Pakyong district, is adopting a proactive, AI-driven community model to ensure the sustainable management of its springs and water resources
Delhi’s worsening humid heat shows why Indian cities must rethink how they build and cool.
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Delhi once had harsh but breathable summers. Now humid heat is making the city harder to endure

Soumya Dutta
5 min read
Why the capital's growing green cover has not stopped the city from becoming hotter and less liveable
Working through the heat: How Bengaluru’s gig workers are bearing the cost of rising temperatures
Beyond the carbon count: Why Uttarakhand’s indigenous water knowledge must enter India’s national adaptation plan
The West Asia conflict and India’s rising heat are not separate files in the lives of ordinary people
The Super El Nino is more than a weather event; it is a profound cultural, systemic, and structural failure
A family in Chimanimani digs on March 22, 2019, without protective clothing for their missing family member after Cyclone Idai struck the area.
Jammu on the edge: Why climate change demands an urgent educational response in Jambu Lochan’s citadel
When nights refuse to cool: India’s heatwave crisis demands a new climate compact
When regional drought becomes a national monetary policy trap
The Thunder Dragon’s Fever: Bhutan’s climate debt is South Asia’s problem
India must weave climate resilience into the fabric of policy, urban planning, and public discourse
Community-led climate action in the Sundarbans offers a better pathway than global carbon markets
In memory of the deluge
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