Eric Holthaus’s ‘Future Earth: A Radical Vision For What’s Possible in the Age of Warming’ is unique in its sco
Glaciers and Polar Ice Caps
The fast disappearing glaciers of Kashmir
Posted on 11 Sep, 2020 02:27 PMKashmir’s glaciers are melting at frightening rates. Kolahoi glacier, the largest glacier in Kashmir Himalayas, has lost 23 percent area since 1962 and has fragmented into smaller parts!
Glaciers, frozen rivers of ice

"Everything’s devastated, and no one is listening to us!"
Posted on 08 Aug, 2020 06:52 PM"All of a sudden, water entered the house at night. Goods and cattle were submerged. There is no place to eat or drink. We have been in trouble for three days, but no one has come to help us.” The elderly Gauri Singh complains, with mixed feelings of anger, pain and helplessness.

Global infections from water poised to rise with climate change
Posted on 24 Apr, 2020 04:11 PMClimate change triggered heat waves threaten water availability
Ninjallama rues as she remembers, " It was a terrible summer. The heat wave was killing. Three people died in my village. People with skeletal fluorosis suffered .. "

A climate change wake-up call
Posted on 21 Jan, 2020 06:53 AMA new McKinsey Global Institute report, ‘Climate risk and response: Physical hazards and socioeconomic impacts’, suggests that many assumptions about the pote

India’s tryst with climate change
Posted on 06 Dec, 2019 04:23 PMGlobal warming has given rise to unprecedented extreme events such as cyclones, floods, heatwaves and droughts in India. Why are these threats increasing?

Holistic approach needed to clean the Ganga
Posted on 06 Dec, 2019 10:39 AMThe National Mission for Cleaning Ganga was set up in 2014 and the Namami Gange programme was launched the year after, with a budget outlay of Rs. 20,000 crore. The implementation of the flagship programme was followed by the framing of a draft National River Ganga (Rejuvenation, Protection and Management) Bill, 2019 to be introduced in the winter session of Parliament.

300 million people will be vulnerable to annual coastline flooding by 2050
Posted on 06 Nov, 2019 12:28 PMA new research study by Climate Central, a US-based non-profit research group has projected that 300 million people could face annual coastal flooding triggered by climate change by 2050.

Ice stupas, the contested water towers of Ladakh
Posted on 24 Oct, 2019 04:38 PMLadakh, the arid Himalayan desert, is a high elevation borderland located close to the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir, in India. Water here originates from glaciers in the high altitude mountains that tower over Ladakh’s villages. Simple earthwork irrigation channels tap meltwater from streams that originate from these glaciers.

Monsoon withdrawal delayed; more extreme weather events the new trend
Posted on 02 Oct, 2019 11:01 AMMonsoon’s withdrawal likely to begin around October 10: IMD
