Checking the flow

Guatemala

Stop blaming the rain

Drought helps mosquitoes to grow abundantly

Just no end to destruction

Large-scale herbivore outbreaks follow every El Nio drought

Success in a fistful of rice

Women come to the rescue of a village burdened by drought

Downslide Down Under

Look out for the elephants

In court

Amazon basin is in transition to an anthropogenic disturbance-dominated regime, mainly driven by globalisation

International support is urgently needed to strengthen national efforts to increase conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems, for large-scale …

Drought in the Amazon: A tragedy announced

The severe drought affecting the Amazon is producing a human and environmental tragedy in the region, with the marginalised suffering the most  

UNCCD COP14: Experts stress the need to assess long-term drought impacts

World Bank, Water Global Practices release framework to assess benefits of proactive action vis-à-vis drought

Despite intense rainfall, world’s water supply is decreasing

Study finds that drying of soil due to rise in temperatures is not letting much water reach rivers and reservoirs  

India lost more than 70,000 people because of climate change-related disasters

A new report by an international thinktank Germanwatch has some bad news for India. It says that between 1998 and 2017, India lost, on an average,…

Climate extremes can reverse progress in ending malnutrition

A report by the World Meteorological Organization adds that climate events in 2017 had the biggest impact on acute food insecurity and …

$6.4 billion spent to combat desertification in last 2 years: Report

The cost of combating land degradation and desertification has been estimated at $450 billion annually

This year, monsoon has been anything but normal

There is a problem with IMD’s long-range forecasts and how we understand and classify our monsoons

Victims of climate change: This year, 135 people may die every day due to drought in Somalia

Consecutive years of failed rains may have caused this longest, most severe drought in the country’s history

More children in central Sahel will face severe hunger in June-August 2023: Survey

The number of hungry people in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso is projected to cross 7.5 million

Rice, integral to Madagascar, may be hastening the decline of its unique biodiversity; here is how

Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot; most of the plants, animals, insects and fungi found there are not found anywhere else  

Bad weather ahead: Water-related risks can cost 7 large economies $5.6 billion

The United States is projected to incur the highest losses, United Arab Emirates lowest

Are we inured to weather crises?

Not the number of natural disasters; we now need to keep an account of losses and damages

Water, Africa’s Gold: Pan-continental shortage forces Africans to spend more on water than food

Women and children in Africa spend 4.5 million years collecting water every year: A pan-continental shortage has made hunt for water a daily …

Climate change is real: Assam tea did not see a second flush this year

Measures to mitigate the impact of climate change on the tea industry need to be urgently undertaken, say tea experts

Restore flow, rivers are self-purifying

We need to go back to the drawing board of Jackie King, the South African who won the World Water Prize 2019 

Drought watch: Is there any monsoon effect?

A deficit in July rainfall has been associated with six of India’s worst droughts between 1877 and 2005