drought

northeast monsoon, southwest monsoon, drought, water crisis, groundwater depletion, water shortage, Nalgonda, India Meteorological Department, El Nino, Bay of Bengal, farmer suicide, water reservoirs, water cuts, Chennai, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, statistical models, weather prediction,

Northeast Monsoon Flops, Triggering Drought-Like Conditions Across South India

Nidhi Jamwal 30/01/2019

Analysis of monsoon data suggests South India is headed...

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Climate Change Harming Agriculture, India’s Wheat Production Could Fall By 23%: Ministry

Dheeraj Mishra 04/01/2019

In the absence of effective and timely intervention, the...

All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee members and farmers at the rally at Ramlila Maidan on November 29, 2018. Credit: PTI/Ravi Choudhary

Kisan Movement: The Necessity of Making Climate Change a Political Issue

N. Sai Balaji 01/12/2018

The moment for revisiting the grammar of the farmer's...

agricultural distress, Azad Maidan, Bundelkhand, climate change, drought, farmer suicide, farmer’s march, global warming, Indian monsoon, Indian Ocean, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Kharif crop, livestock, melting glaciers, northeast monsoon, ocean warming, rabi crop, rising sea level, southwest monsoon, Sunderbans, wheat cultivation,

As Farmers March to Delhi, Climate Change Fuels Their Larger Crisis

Nagraj Adve 28/11/2018

Perhaps we can visualise a farmers’ march 20 years...

afforestation, MoEFCC, climate change, carbon sink, IPCC, UNFCCC, drought, flooding, Palmer drought severity index, biomass

Climate Change Is Reducing the Ability of Forests to Store Carbon

Lalitha Krishnan 13/10/2018

India has said it will boost its carbon sink...

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 2018 Kerala floods, 2015 Chennai floods, Chembarambakkam lake, water scarcity, Stone Age tools, human migration, aridification, landfills, garbage dump, flooding, drought, climate change, paddy cultivation

Tamil Nadu’s Chembarambakkam Lake Foretells an Aridity in the Sands of Time

Anupama Chandrasekaran 10/10/2018

“People have left Chennai because of war, they’ve left...

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Puerto Rico Has Still Not Recovered From Hurricane Maria

Lauren Lluveras 20/09/2018

It's been one year since a Category 4 storm...