El Nino-fuelled Northeast monsoon caused the deluge in south Tamil Nadu: Experts

Extreme rainfall in south Tamil Nadu during the Northeast monsoon is much more common than in the Southwest monsoon season, according to studies

El Niño won’t threaten this monsoon: IMD

While IMD says the climatic phenomenon will be ineffective, other forecasters disagree

The great Indian monsoon and its friends

A look at the association between the southwest monsoon and its companions

The heat is on

Monsoon prediction model

Temperatures crossed 1.5°C for the whole of 2023; last month hottest January on record, say EU scientists

While the world has not yet breached the Paris Agreement target (an average global temperature over decades), it is moving ever closer to it

Where does monsoon get over 200 lakh crore buckets of water from?

Although it is assumed most of the water comes from the Indian Ocean, a significant amount of rain over the Ganga basin and northeast India is …

2015 El Niño strongest since 1997-98, says international weather agency

El Niño is one of the main drivers of the climate system and contributes to extreme weather events around the world

El Niño gathers strength, likely to continue into winter: Japan Met agency

There are fears that a strong El Niño this year like the one in 1997-98, will push up food inflation across South and Southeast Asia

Waiting for El Niño

Going against the predictions of other meteorological agencies in the world, Japan Meteorological Agency took a bold step by announcing the onset …

Sluggish monsoon worries India Inc

If the monsoons fail this year, the Modi government will have some serious policy-making, damage control and number crunching to do

Simply unpredictable

Despite using satellites and supercomputers, meteorologists are still baffled by the monsoon, unable to say precisely when it will occur and how …

Study links 135 million premature deaths from 1980 to 2020 to PM2.5 exposure

Changes in climate patterns like El Nino-Southern Oscillation, Indian Ocean Dipole can make air pollution worse, finds paper

July 2015 is Earth’s hottest month ever recorded

Ocean surfaces across the world also experienced record warmth

Will El Nino strike?

Australian Met department says climatic indicators for the phenomenon have eased

The ill effects

Warming climate spawns disease epidemics

Lethal messenger

El Niño brings deadly disease to South America

Indigenous knowledge is vital in the fight against climate change: IPCC report

The IPCC’s latest report cites various instances of how fast-vanishing indigenous knowledge is an important tool to mitigate the climate crisis

Water in age of climate change

We now need to be more than obsessive about water and its management as it is the basis of health and wealth

Warmer winters in India: La Nina events may be getting hotter than El Nino, say experts

La Niña conditions in the Pacific fading, may lead to a rise in global temperatures, say experts

Four possible consequences of El Niño returning in 2023

It’s possible that Earth’s rising temperature will temporarily exceed the 1.5°C threshold of the Paris agreement some time …

Run-up to COP27: Here is how India counts loss and damage due to extreme weather

While the actual process of loss and damage assessment for a disaster in India varies from state to state, the procedure broadly remains the same

CoP27 will be ‘implementation CoP’: Egypt CoP27 Presidency

The issues prioritised by developing countries must be placed front and center with loud voices and clear asks

Dousing flames

The Uttarakhand forest fires that lasted for over 100 days should come as a warning to the rest of India since half of its forests are vulnerable …

India to see hotter than normal summer in 2016: IMD

The outlook has also warned of an increased probability of heat waves across the country during the summer as the prevailing El Nino weakens