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India's six-week-long general election has started, but with more heatwave days than usual forecast, is the nation prepared?

The fertile and densely populated plain around the Indus and Ganges rivers is likely to become a climate change hotspot according to a new study published in the Journal of Hydrometeorology.

Tech professionals are fleeing a drought in the IT hub of Bengaluru. Fixing the issue means confronting the country’s two most sensitive industries: agriculture and power generation.

In recent flood events, dams, it could be said, ‘weaponized’ the floods and turned high river flow into a catastrophic disaster. And as a consequence, climate change has just made a lot more assets uninsurable.

The basic criteria for IMD to declare a heatwave currently does not include take into account relative humidity, which is increasingly becoming a cause of humid heatwaves.

Hot temperatures are an increasing health concern in India and around the world. For this analysis, the authors focused on the chance that people celebrating Holi would encounter temperatures above 40°C.

This paper explores how transformative adaptation towards more sustainable and resilient urban societies can be achieved through the inclusion of traditional knowledge, indigenous practices, and the bearers of such knowledge – the communities.

The present study attempts to – 1) identify critical challenges Vidarbha orange growers face during drought impact and 2) examine the farmers' perception and awareness about drought impacts, and different adaptation and mitigation strategies.