A monsoon warning
As I write this my city Delhi is drowning. It started raining early this morning and within a few hours the city has come to a standstill. The television is showing scenes of traffic snarled up for...
View ArticleDown To Earth Cover Story: Future shock
As the world continues to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the global temperatures could rise by 3°C by mid-century, says a soon-to-be-released report of the Intergovernmental Panel on...
View ArticleSix sins that make drought invincible
It’s drought time again. Nothing new in this announcement. Each year, first we have crippling droughts between December and June, and then devastating floods in the next few months. It’s a cycle of...
View ArticleWeather dice is loaded
During my weekly conversation with my sister I told her about the unusual searing heat this June, the problems of power cuts and how we are coping in India. She, in turn, told me that in Washington DC,...
View ArticleA tale of two cities
I travelled to two different cities in two different states last week—Indore and Guwahati. I came back with images identified by common distinctions: piles of garbage and glitzy new shopping malls. Is...
View ArticleHimalayan blunders
The floods in the Himalayas have been ferocious and deadly. Fears are that the final body count could run into several thousands. There is no clear estimate of the number of villages wiped out,...
View ArticleCSE PRESS NOTE: Chennai in crisis
Unregulated urbanisation and climate change-induced extreme weather are the reasons behind the crisis in Chennai: CSEread more
View ArticleThe new extreme reality of floods
Floods are destroying vast parts of the country because of how we have mismanaged our floodplainsread more
View ArticleOn World Environment Day, CSE releases analysis of how India has warmed over...
First animated climate spiral showing the warming of India Annual mean temperature in India has increased by 1.2 degrees C since the beginning of the 20th century. 2016 was second warmest year on...
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