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The trail of destruction left by Cyclone Amphan in eastern India has once again highlighted inadequacies in dealing with climate disasters that displace millions of people every year

Governments are expected to take stronger action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the United Nations climate summit that is now postponed to November 2021

The collective efforts to contain the Covid-19 pandemic in India offer vital lessons that could inform science-based climate action strategies in various states

Despite the serial disasters of pandemic, cyclone and locust attack, India’s economic stimulus package continues with its inefficient short-term thinking, although there is no shortage of viable alternatives

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