Food security: Climate change is affecting the seeds that India depends on

An increase in number of days with extreme temperatures or rain has caused a decline in quality and size of seeds across India

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

Investing in early warning, agrifood chains needed for resilient food systems: Report

Global food policy report calls for beyond short term fixes to build food systems that are more resilient

Poorer countries must be compensated for climate damage. But how exactly do we crunch the numbers?

Most nations signed up to an agreement to establish a so-called loss and damage fund last year

Centre takes steps to monitor pulse stocks: Is India staring at another food crisis?

Heavy rain and hailstorm in mid-March and early April might affect yield of pulse crops; official says government focusing on nutrition and security

Heatwaves arrive early in 2023; hit 11 states from March 3 to April 18

22 states/UTs recorded above-normal maximum temperature on April 18, 2023

Climate change increases the risk of extreme wildfires around Cape Town — but it can be addressed

Extreme wildfire events occur almost exclusively under extreme fire weather conditions

Climate change worsened extreme weather events in 2022: State of the Global Climate report

More such events likely with rising greenhouse gas emissions and approaching El Niño

2022 saw record-breaking weather events despite 3-year run of La Niña: State of the Global Climate report

There were continuous droughts in East Africa, record rainfall in Pakistan & record heatwaves in China & Europe in 2022

2022 Durban floods were most catastrophic natural disaster yet recorded in South African province

New research suggests flooding events in KwaZulu-Natal have doubled over the last century or more

Deadly heatwaves threaten to reverse India’s progress on poverty and inequality — new research

India has suffered over 24,000 heatwave-related deaths since 1992

Heatwaves, droughts, extreme rain may be near permanent in 20 countries at 1.5°C warming

Study warns climate impact may increase multiple extreme events that occur simultaneously or consecutively

Seven disasters have cost the US $19 billion in 2023: NOAA

Each disaster caused damages of over a billion dollars; only 2017 and 2020 had more disasters in this timeframe

Unusually long La Niña displaced record number of people in 2022

In India, disasters were mostly weather-related and displaced 2.5 million people in 2022, according to the Global Report on Internal Displacement

Mocha: Summer cyclones not new; Fani, Amphan were May storms too

New summer cyclone likely to take place in Bay of Bengal around May 8

Mocha and the ever-growing fiasco we are pushing ourselves into

Will the Anthropocene be the shortest era in history?

Heavy rains, flooding in north Italy claim 8 lives; thousands evacuated

An average of 200 mm of rainfall happened in the last 36 hours

Increased chance of earth breaching 1.5°C in next five years

One of the years from 2023-2027 could be the warmest ever recorded, warns WMO

Sinking cities: Two ways to fight land subsidence

Artificial recharge and deep soil mixing are two techniques showing promise in rescuing sinking cities

In pictures: Wildfires blaze through Canada thanks to unusually hot, dry spring

Wildfires began early in May 2023 in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan provinces, which have affected over 10,000 people. Alberta …

Understanding climate patterns: What are El Nino and La Nina?

El Nino and La Nina are opposing climate patterns in the equatorial Pacific Ocean that can affect weather worldwide

Nearly 150,000 Indians have died in the past 51 years because of extreme weather: WMO

Extreme weather, climate and water-related events caused nearly 12, 000 disasters worldwide between 1970 and 2021

Making cities climate-ready crucial to solving climate crisis: World Bank

Cities in rich countries high emitters, but poorer ones will face most severe climate-related hazards, finds report

Drought to deluge: Heavy rain causes flash flooding across southern Spain

Rains still continue; this spring had been Spain’s driest on record through May 21

Deluge in Spain continues, could still face its driest summer in over 6 decades

Some areas see more rainfall in a day than normally seen in an entire month; wet weather to continue