Food India: Six recipes to beat the heat

DTE brings you some recipes from our foodbook; they are soothing for the summers, high on nutrition, even medicinal. Here's wishing you …

Climate atlas finds summers, winters in India to get warmer, Kharif season to see more rainfall

Report by thinktank presents historical trends from 1990–2019 and projects future ones 

Neptune’s summer temperature drops dramatically. What may have caused this?

Scientists had expected the planet to slowly grow warmer, not colder

Amid COVID-19, doubts raised over hosting of Tokyo Summer Olympics

The Tokyo Summer Olympics are scheduled to be held from July 24, 2020

Pre-summer rains: How the charm of Chandigarh endures

Every year, the ‘City Beautiful’ located between the Siwaliks and the Indus Plain, plays host to a game between heat, cold, dust and …

'The Olympic Charter contradicts many indigenous physical activities'

Down To Earth speaks to Christian Wacker, president, International Society of Olympic Historians, about indigenous people at the Olympics

Sizzling summer: IMD forecasts ‘above normal’ temperatures in most of India for April-June

The average rainfall during April across India will most likely be normal

Madhya Pradesh farmers were craving rain; now they fear too much of it

Rainfall status yo-yos from 23% deficit to 20% excess in a month

Cool dwellings: Here is what you can do to make your building beat the heat

‘Shade, insulate and ventilate’ should be the mantra for achieving ‘thermally comfortable’ buildings

What is the summer solstice? An astronomer explains

It brings the longest day and shortest night of the year for the 88 per cent of Earth’s people who live in the Northern Hemisphere

What is COVID-19 signaling about building design for healthy living?

The possibility that our air-conditioned and cooled living spaces may make coronavirus comfortable and spread needs to be well understood to spur …

Heatwave: Passing phase or a natural calamity?

It is time heatwaves are treated as a natural calamity and some form of compensation system is devised while investing more in creating more …

What’s next after monsoon's arrival in Kerala

The progress of this year’s monsoon is likely to be delayed in some parts of India

What would the ancient Greeks think of an Olympics with no fans?

In many ways, they’d view the prospect as absurd

What happens to your body in a heatstroke?

Here are all the symptoms to help you identify a heatstroke if you or anyone around you has one and what should you do to treat it

Is India ready: CSE finds worrying signs of heat stress

Summer 2022 was 2nd-hottest since 2010; now monsoon leaving it behind    

The Tokyo Games prove that the Olympics are less relevant than ever

Our world is on fire, a pandemic rages on and the rich keep getting richer. In such a context, how can the Tokyo Olympics be anything other than …

With low water reserves, a blistering Indian summer

The water levels in Indian reservoirs are at levels lower than they have been in nearly a decade, and as the summer approaches, it looks like it …

Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi among the states bracing for hotter summer this year

Normal heat wave-like conditions will prevail over the country’s core heat wave zone, which includes northern and central India

The Mediterranean is warming three times more than the oceans: Study

The warming is twice as fast in inland and high areas

Northern Hemisphere just recorded its hottest summer

The five warmest summers ever recorded have occurred in the past five years

Pakistani city may have experienced “highest-ever” April temperature measured on Earth

Nawabshah, in Sindh, registered a sweltering 50.2 degree Celsius on April 30

Why guava is attractive for farmers & consumers alike

Used in street food, chutneys and perfumes, the climate-resistant fruit is a clear option for farmers

Summer commences in India, impact on COVID-19 unclear as of now

More data expected in next 2 weeks, especially on the virus, humidity and ultra-violet radiation

Scientists evaluate ups and downs in 2019 summer monsoon

Weakening of El Niño and favourable Equatorial Indian Ocean Oscillation led to increase of monsoon rains, says an IISc professor