Have cyclones in monsoon become the new ‘normal’?
The tropical cyclones of category 4 have wind speeds between 157 and 200 kilometres per hour
Rainfall changes could impact global manufacturing, services sectors
India needs to identify risks in each sector and safeguard them from climate change as we move forward, says experts
Agriculture ministry set to get its disaster management plan soon: MHA official
The plan identifies 34 hazards that pose a risk to the agricultural sector and where timely interventions are needed, the official said
India to witness severe food inflation due to extreme weather
The record-breaking vegetable price rise indicates an era of high food inflation in coming years
Watch: How the global food crisis is unfolding, with 1 in 5 people in need of urgent action
Children and women most affected; conflict & extreme weather events biggest driver of food insecurity
El Nino-like weather conditions increased short-term malnutrition in children across tropics: Study
Nearly 6 million children were driven into hunger during 2015 El Nino
Lightning activity in the European Eastern Alps doubled in 40 years. What does this indicate?
Higher frequency of thunderstorms that bring lightning have a link with global warming
Mocha and the ever-growing fiasco we are pushing ourselves into
Will the Anthropocene be the shortest era in history?
Extreme weather hits economies, hurts Asia most: WMO report
Loss due to landslides increased by 147% compared to average in the past 20 years
How global warming will impact Indian states
A one-metre rise in sea level will displace 7.1 million people in India
Simply Put: Weather news during climate crisis
How do extreme weather events lead to increase in child marriages?
Droughts, floods and other extreme weather events by intensify gender inequality and poverty, causing a spurt in child, early and forced …
A third of deaths due to extreme events occurred in Africa over 50 years: WMO
Africa accounted for only one per cent of global economic losses due to weather, climate and water extremes in 50 years
Why the deportation of an English anthropologist has south Kerala’s fishing communities worried
Filippo Osella was about to launch a precise early weather-warning system the fish workers badly need
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
Tomato price rise: Farmers in Andhra say that is only part of the whole story
All-year demand, the pressures of cultivating tomato off season and changing climate are making life difficult for Chittoor’s farmers
Climate change, poor planning: Why Assam’s floods are getting worse
The current spate of floods in Assam claimed 71 lives and affected nearly 3.2 million people in 32 districts
Maharashtra doubles input subsidy for farmers, citing extreme weather events
Maharashtra farmers skeptical about doubling of input subsidy by state government; say benefits hardly accrue to them
Auckland floods: Kerala woman travelling to New Zealand narrates her experience of being stranded at Malaysia airport
Many desperately need their luggage off the plane for medicines, sanitary napkins and clothes
The UK is still not prepared for extreme temperatures – here’s what it should do
The UK has numerous frameworks and plans; however, they are not integrated, don’t consider dependencies between sectors and issues and they …
Davos 2023: Natural disasters, extreme weather second-most severe global risk in short term
India recorded extreme weather events on 291 of the 334 days between January 1 and November 30, 2022
As told to Parliament (December 7, 2022): 71% Indians can’t afford nutritious food, member of Parliament cites DTE report
More than 1.7 million people die every year due to diseases caused by poor diet, DTE reported
Children born in 2020 will experience 6.8 times more heatwaves than those born in 1960: Report
Limiting warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels will reduce the additional lifetime exposure of new-borns to heatwaves by 45%, droughts …
India lost crops on 18 million hectares to extreme floods from 2017-2019: Govt
Madhya Pradesh hardest-hit; figures show gross underestimation of crop losses due to floods
World on track to shatter temperature records for 12 consecutive months in May 2024
Both air and ocean temperatures have been on a record-breaking streak for the past 12 months and 13 months, respectively