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. […]
Changing weather will affect living standards of half of India’s population
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 […]
India: a turbulent tale of rivers, floods and monsoons
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 […]
Post-Monsoon Rain Deficit Worsening Drought in India
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 […]
El Nino effect to cause warmer winters
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 […]
Lack Of Cooperation From State Governments, Key Factor For Non-Compliance In Crop Insurance Schemes: Gajendra Shekhawat, MoS, Ministry Of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
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 […]
El-Nino, poor urban design leave Chennai battered
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 […]