Why is Earth’s driest place flooding and snowing?
The Atacama Desert in Chile is witnessing rains like never before, including regions that never recorded rains in history
Winds beneath the storms
A confluence of global, regional and local variables is leading to the development of massive storms
'Andhra Pradesh lightning strikes were not record breaking'
Down To Earth interviews Earth Networks, a global organisation which helps track lightning strikes through a network of sensors placed around the …
Three-fold increase in extreme rain events over central India: study
Widespread extreme rain events have increased during the 66-year period between 1950 and 2015
Hurricanes of the future might have increased potential for catastrophic events
Climate science predicts a definite increase in the frequency of hurricanes, their intensity and duration due to warming of the ocean surfaces
Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana is a good scheme with flawed execution, says CSE
Agriculture insurance is recognised as an important part of the safety net for farmers to deal with the impacts of extreme and unseasonal weather
IMD to provide block-level weather forecasts by 2019
100 blocks will be covered by the end of this year and the remaining will be covered by 2019
Frequency of heat waves increasing; we must prepare for it: experts
Experts gathered at the National Workshop on Heat Wave Forecasts for State Level Preparedness deliberated on extreme weather and states' …
Digitising agriculture in face of climate change
Extreme weather and changing geography threatened food security and livelihood in Africa and Asia this year. Digitising agriculture has become a …
500 years of drought and flood: trees and corals reveal Australia's climate history
The dominant theme of Australia’s drought history is variability. The country may get one year of extremely wet conditions or six …
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
East and West: Extreme weather strikes on opposite sides of globe in Brazil, Texas, Vietnam & Indonesia
75 dead in Brazil floods; evacuations in flood-hit Houston; heat dries up Vietnam while 14 die in Indonesia due to floods and landslides
Loss & damage: 85% of costliest climate-linked disasters in 2023 were floods & storms; mostly affected poor
Recovery cost of Cyclone Freddy in Malawi was around 5.2% of its economy, highest among 20 most expensive global disasters in 2023
Extreme weather 2023: India saw disasters on 86% days this year, shows DTE-CSE report
India has seen a disaster nearly every day in the first nine months of this year
WMO declares El Nino onset following rapid development. Here’s what the world should watch out for
For India, the major impact is expected on the ongoing monsoon season
Five questions for African countries that want to build climate-resilient health systems
Health systems also need to explicitly address the risks of climate change
How India fared environmentally: State of India’s Environment 2023 In Figures
Extreme weather leaves none of the 5 continents untouched
Unusual heat wave, floods, wildfire, extreme rain and drought hit everyone worldwide
Floods damage 55,000 houses, kill 511 people this monsoon
The worst affected states in terms of loss of lives have been Karnataka and Maharashtra
Wet century ahead: Extreme rainfall here to stay for Western Ghats, North East
Extreme rainfall events have become more frequent since the 1980s, the analysis noted
Chile records its deadliest wildfire in 123 years, may be linked to climate change
Five of the top 10 deadliest wildfires globally since 1900 have occurred since 2018
What the tourism sector can learn from Cape Town’s drought
The 2015-2018 drought, one of the longest and the worst to have affected Cape Town, affected tourism badly
First-of-its kind UN guidance calls for climate action by States to protect children’s rights
Insufficient progress in achieving global commitments to limit global warming exposes children to hazards like rising temperatures
How droughts can leave people with nowhere to go
Those most affected by climate-induced droughts risk being trapped due to a lack of resources and networks to migrate
Is the world headed for another food crisis?
One tends to fear that the last century’s achievement in curbing extreme hunger will be undone in the 21st century