Author: Ben Henley

People in the Sundarbans wonder why they bother rebuilding when their land is being taken by the sea and their huts will fall down again in the next cyclone

We have to invest in resilience-building measures, especially in health infrastructure, and weather and disease forecast systems, addressing training and adaptive capacity needs

The morning after the strongest cyclone ever to hit West Bengal shows tremendous destruction. There is still no news from much of Sundarbans

In West Bengal, evacuees and people quarantined for possible coronavirus infections are crammed inside the same buildings because there are no other shelters

The federal government has reduced solar tariffs for central public sector companies to boost domestic production of photovoltaic cells and modules

Fisheries markets collapsed in the first days of the lockdown, impoverishing hundreds of thousands of small fishers in India, and recovery is nowhere in sight

India’s second longest river is flowing clean in the lockdown forced by Covid-19. A grim reminder of how it was before could persuade us to keep it that way

India can turn the crisis precipitated by the coronavirus pandemic into an opportunity by resetting its energy spending to favour renewable power in all spheres of economic activity

India’s pandemic lockdown has plunged agriculture into a crisis that needs immediate cash transfers to bail out smallholder farmers preparing for the summer cropping season

The drop in global carbon dioxide emissions driven by the coronavirus pandemic could be lost once the crisis blows over, unless we shift to cleaner energy