Downpours in the highlands of Meghalaya in India and damaging floods in the wetlands of north-eastern Bangladesh are inextricably linked. The South Asian neighbours must collaborate to address these occasional calamities
“We were in a festive mood just after the celebrations for the Bengali new year. All preparations were made to harvest our crops but…Read More
Solar pumps can sell excess power instead of drawing more water than they need to
Phodabhai Parmar, a 72-year-old farmer, sits on a charpai sipping tea as solar panels gleam in the fields behind him. Parmar is one of six farmers who have formed the world’s first solar irrigation cooperative in Dhundi village in Gujarat’s Kheda district, about 90 km from Ahmedabad…Read More
Over five decades, the low cloud cover has gone down, especially during the monsoon
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted that this year’s monsoon rainfall will be around 98% of the long period average, which is good news in this drought-prone era. But another study by the same IMD shows a more worrying trend. It has found that rain-bearing clouds…Read More
Climate change is straining socio-economic life in Kinnaur affecting apple production, causing landslides and pushing metal pent roofs
On April 16, Roshan Lal Negi woke up to find snow carpeting the courtyard of his home in Jangi village. Boys with smartphones quickly made videos to share on WhatsApp but more than a month later, the dusty snow still sits on the lower parts…Read More
An air quality rating system is launched in the state on World Environment Day to make data from 20,000 samples publicly available
In January this year, a report estimated that air pollution kills 1.2 million Indians each year and takes 3% off the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The levels of the most dangerous airborne pollutants grew by 13% in India between…Read More
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