Besides displacing thousands of people, the proposed Navi Mumbai international airport is expected to destroy local mangrove and wetland ecosystems that strengthen climate resilience of India’s financial capital
Besides rising temperatures and sea levels, climate change is increasingly leading to extreme rainfall, floods and cyclones to occur at the same time in India, says a new study
Rapid erosion and the increasing pressure of human development is threatening nearly half of the thickly populated coastline in Kerala that makes large-scale displacement inevitable
It has been a double whammy for migrant workers fleeing the unprecedented Kerala floods back home to the Sundarbans in West Bengal, a region that is anyway facing the brunt of climate change
The rise in sea levels due to climate change is likely to turn the soil more saline in large parts of the Sundarbans region in India and Bangladesh, making cultivation unviable and forcing mass migration
The rise in temperatures due to climate change has increased the vulnerability of Odisha on the east coast of India to intense cyclonic storms