Cyclone Nivar: Chennai shut as rains cause flooding in several parts
Around 0.1 million people, including 28,161 children, were evacuated to 1,694 relief camps across Tamil Nadu from low-lying areas
Why climate change studies on rice production are important in Wayanad
Area under rice cultivation has been declining rapidly in north Kerala district between 2004-05 and 2018-19
Cape Town ‘Day Zero’ drought risk lurking around the corner: Study
South African cities should prepare themselves for similar drought conditions, warned the study
Extreme weather events increasing in intensity in Africa: Greenpeace report
Temperatures and extreme heat events are expected to increase across the continent
Global Eco Watch: Drifting iceberg threatens seals, penguins on British Antarctic island
Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology
Stubble fire counts up, Delhi air quality slips to ‘severe’
Stubble burning share of PM2.5 estimated around 42% on November 4 from 5% a day earlier
‘Very poor’ Delhi air to slip further over 2 days
Blame factors: Calm surface wind, low ventilation, local pollution sources
Climate-related weather events to break records in US this year, data shows
The country is on its way to record 17 billion-dollar extreme weather events in 2020, having lost $46.6 billion till September
Hyderabad storm water management: Missed potential and way forward
Due to a multiplicity of authorities, the stormwater infrastructure in the city is largely unequipped to handle moderate or extreme rainfall …
Expect ‘severe’ Delhi air today
EPCA flags uncertainty over wind direction; Friday AQI was season-worst
Delhi’s poor air days start, will only deteriorate
Dip in temperature, calm surface winds and steady increase in farm fires in Punjab and Haryana reason for poor air quality
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
Amid hurricanes and wildfires, Trump gives science a cold shoulder
“I don’t think science knows actually. It’ll start getting cooler,” US President Donald Trump said during a briefing on …
We need to treat extreme events as connected, not as anomalies
Clear trends of interconnected extreme weather events intensifying and becoming more frequent can be seen across the world as the climate crisis …
Humans hunted Arctic foxes in wintry northern Europe during last Ice Age, fossils show
They did not migrate during winter but rather hunted Arctic foxes for survival
Disaster strikes Bengal’s Mousuni island third time in 10 months
Recent breach in embankments follow the devastatations caused by cyclones Amphan, Bulbul
It rained hard in Delhi; what if all that water did not go waste
The volume of rainwater generated in the past week was almost 13 per cent of the demand for water in Delhi, estimated at 2,765 million litres per …
An Indian was the first to scientifically document a tornado’s path: Study
Babu ChunderSikur Chatterjee’s paper was the earliest record of a tornado’s dynamics in the history of meteorology, according to …
Did Death Valley just hit the highest temperature recorded ever
The all-time highest temeparature ever was recorded more than a century ago, but that reading has been challenged
Kerala faces floods for third consecutive year
Extremely heavy rain forecast in Idukki, Palakkad, Thrissur and Wayanad districts for the next two days
Kerala deluge: Flooded districts were rain-deficit 24 hours ago
Till August 6, Kerala reported a deficit of 10% in its seasonal monsoon rainfall; by August 7, several districts had been issued red alerts
An every monsoon affair: How to tackle urban flooding
Urbanisation is inevitable as is climate change; the need is for a multi-pronged approach
More than 200 natural disasters across world in 1st half of 2020
Cyclone Amphan was the world’s costliest natural disaster, at an estimated economic loss of $15 billion
Floods cost India Rs 4.7 lakh crore in last 6 decades
At least 90% of the Assam’s districts are flooded and more than 50,000 people are in relief camps
What happened to India’s flood management plan?
There is no national-level flood control authority in India — 43 years after the country’s first and last commission …
