After much speculations, EL Niño has finally arrived. The Nino index of 3.4, which is the area of concern has exceeded the threshold value of 0.5°C for the required period of time. El Niño is declared when Oceanic Niño Index (ONI), which is three months running mean of […]
2018 was the sixth-warmest and had the sixth-lowest monsoon in the last 117 years, says IMD By Richard Mahapatra Thursday 17 January 2019 Credit: Getty Images The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on January 16 declared that 2018 was the sixth- warmest year in the last 117 years or since 1901, […]
Philip Ball plunges into a chronicle of the subcontinent’s human and environmental histories. Philip Ball December 12, 2018 The Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh remarked on a singular cultural gap in his 2016 book The Great Derangement. Environment and climate, he noted, are almost completely ignored in contemporary literary […]
Deekshith Nevil Pinto November 5, 2018 TWC India File photo of a farmer sitting in the middle of his dried land (Netra Raju and S Nagendra / BCCL) At a Glance In October, India got a paltry 44% of the month’s average—the lowest since 1976. An erratic monsoon, […]
The El Nino effect will fully descend in India by November and December, where the impact will be maximum in the country. According to IMD experts, the natural cycle will gradually move towards the Arabian Sea and its effect will be seen in India. THE ASIAN AGE October […]
Indian Monsoon has a direct relationship with the global climate change, which is evidently showing impact across the country in forms like the early and the late arrival of monsoon, temporal fluctuation in the onset of seasons, unprecedented rainfall and associated phenomena February 22, 2018 by Prabodh Krishna India […]
Guataman Bhaskaran on December 4, 2015 in Asia Times News & Features The recent rain in the southern Indian coastal city of Chennai — unimaginably torrential and reportedly as heavy as it once was a hundred years ago — may have been caused by the global meteorological event, […]
