It will be a warmer winter for north India, colder for south, says IMD

December will be dry as IMD has forecast below normal rainfall for most of India during the month

Cold waves killed more Indians than heat waves since 1980: IMD

There has also been a 506% increase in the number of cold waves in India in this decade

Bird watchers record over 200 bird species in Chhattisgarh’s Kanger Valley National Park

The landscape of Kanger Valley can potentially host species found in the Himalayas, the Northeast, the Eastern and Western Ghats, the survey showed

India’s cold-wave regions to have warm winter: IMD

While the winter season in general will be warm, based on average temperature, the cold-wave regions would be warmer than other regions

Just how harmful is air pollution and how bad is India placed

In India, life expectancy dropped by 3.86 years in 2015 due to air pollution

Simply Put: Data govt takes, data govt offers

Swachh Bharat Mission: another futile toilet chase?

Swachh Bharat Mission is blindly chasing toilets-a private good and not behavioural change – a public good essential to secure sanitation

Can India’s emergency response to Covid-19 be more systematic?

Incident Response System is an emergency response management system ideally suited for an extraordinary situation as being seen now

Rainfall expected in many states of India

An upper air trough to bring first widespread rainfall event of this winter season

Heatwave over north, central India abating, says private forecaster

Temperatures to fall after rising marginally in the next two days

Is Bhilwara Rajasthan’s COVID-19 hotspot?

A large number of people had returned to the town from abroad recently, according to accounts

Why did Mumbai become more polluted while Delhi skies cleared up last winter? Climate change may be a factor

Unusual triple dip La Nina triggers, a sign of changing climate, impacted the large-scale wind pattern 

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COVID-19: What exactly is community transmission?

It is the third phase of a pandemic, according to the World Health Organization

How much did Interim Budget 2024 allocate to different central schemes

Down To Earth plots scheme allocation in the last budget before the general elections on data cards

In 5 graphs: How Monsoon 2021 is turning out to be an unusual one

Officially, it is still a normal monsoon but deficit level has been rising since July

As northwest India endures unusual dust storms, northeast gets flooded before monsoon arrives

The magnitude of floods is likely to increase by 25 per cent in Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, parts of Meghalaya and Nagaland

COVID-19: Centre tells SC 30% migrants on move may have virus

‘We would quarantine them at shelter homes to prevent large-scale contagion’

‘North Atlantic Oscillation may have played a role in this time's cold wave’

Down To Earth speaks to IMD scientist Rajendra Kumar Jenamani about why temperatures dipped so much this winter in spite of its prediction to the …

Empathy, policy, and lessons from literature: remembering Munshi Premchand

In the era of ChatGPT and machine-based learning, policymakers and educators must revisit literature and introduce it as a mandatory component in …

North India Deluge 2023: Ladakh, a cold desert, received over 10,000% of its normal rain on July 8-9

Heavy rains are now a reality for Ladakh due to global warming; Ladakhis may now have to unlearn their former ways of living 

Simply Put: Elephant in the room