Higher water temperatures associated with marine heat waves can cause extreme weather events such as tropical storms and cyclones and disrupt the water cycle, making floods, droughts, and wildfires on land more likely.

Karnataka increased the monthly salaries of anganwadi workers to Rs 10,000 last year but the ministry of women and child development has approved only Rs 4,500 – both lower than the workers' demand.

The new report was a product of an extensive exercise undertaken by 10 research institutions and more than 15,500 birders across India.

Despite taking almost a decade to prepare a state action plan for climate change, the Maharashtra government has missed out on including issues related to thunderstorms, lightning and air pollution.

Fani, as the first of its kind in this decade, has illustrated our need for climate-resilient infrastructure, including better housing and public supply systems. Its successors will put them to the test.

By the end of the last monsoon, it was clear that almost half the country would be heading towards a drought.

Fish catch has plummeted, the sea has been coming further inward and dams are eroding their land. There is nowhere left to go.

Analysis of monsoon data suggests South India is headed for an acute water crisis this summer.

The Pichavaram mangrove forest near Chidambaram, Cuddalore, is the world’s second largest of its kind. And 150 Irula families helped nurture it in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Public Works Department, which is building the road, says it could be ‘submersible’ to keep it from being damaged during floods.

An interview with the former Union environment minister about G.D. Agarwal, hydropower projects, sand-mining and the 'Clean Ganga' mission.

As many areas of J&K's winter capital are already water-stressed, city officials are desperate for succour – so much so that they have plans for drawing even more water from natural sources and no plans for cleaning or recharging them.

In spite of the seemingly ‘normal’ monsoon scenario in the country, some states are braving floods, whereas others are preparing for drought.

The India Meteorological Department is clear about the conditions in which heat waves should be declared – but adverse health impacts arise even before those conditions are met.

The villages around Aurangabad, Maharashtra, have refused to take in any more waste generated by residents of the city. The stink has been building.

Strict parameters set by the central government have made it tougher for the states to declare a drought and seek relief funds from New Delhi.

Shipping industry experts fear the proposed Enayam port, proximate to the Vizhinjam port in Trivandrum and the Vallarpadam port in Cochin, may not be sustainable.

High fluoride content in groundwater is crippling entire generations in several Dhanbad villages, which are full of unsmiling children ashamed of showing stained teeth, an early stage of the debilitating disease.

Floods often bring poisonous snakes along with the waters of Nepal's hilly rivers – and parts of North Bihar experience up to 60 flash floods a year. A new women-led initiative is making these threats a thing of the past.