The rural weather department

Folklore guides farmers about droughts and rains

Drought of equity

A large part of Maharashtra has been declared drought-hit. But distribution of water is quite incongruous. While the few who are politically and …

Digging their Destinies

Villages in arid areas of Vidarbha and Marathwada fight back drought by reviving natural depressions along stream beds

Tensions that continue

While launching this newsmagazine, our founder-editor Anil Agarwal had said that in the years ahead, India will have to seize every possible …

Why are monsoons difficult to predict? (Part-II)

B N Goswami, Director of Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology explains why rains in the tropics are difficult to predict.

Why are monsoons difficult to predict? (Part-I)

B N Goswami, Director of Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology explains why rains in the tropics are difficult to predict.

Suva

Emergency culling

Philippines

EL NINO WATCH

Disaster intimation

Will El Nino strike?

Australian Met department says climatic indicators for the phenomenon have eased

It's emergency

Melting to extinction

Biodiversity in the UK threatened due to climate changes

Rainmaker

Parched ground

Dehydrated state of America

As California enters the fourth year of the worst drought it has seen in over 1,200 years, Venkat Srinivasan travels through America's most …

Climate change affecting jobs in South Asia

Training in green skills must for youth: report

Pray before you sow

2014 could be an El Niño year. This weather event has historically caused devastations across countries. Its mysterious nature is keeping …

Crash in maize production may hit over a million people in Zimbabwe

The entire sub-Saharan African region will be hit hard as maize is the most important cereal crop in here

23 major reservoirs have deficient water levels; 18 are highly deficient

The live storage of reservoirs in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and all southern states is far below normal

Stop the killing fields

Farmers are in a terrible situation, with no water for crops, livestock or drinking. If we dismiss this year as a freak weather year, we will …

2001-2010: Hottest decade with climate extremes

370,000 deaths globally due to extreme weather and climate conditions, says World Meteorological Organization report

2001-2010: Warmest decade on record

Climate change is happening now and is not some distant future event: World Meteorological Organization general secretary

Reaping organic

Karnataka was the first state to adopt a policy on organic farming in 2004. Since then, several initiatives have helped farmers fight drought, …