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climate variability news

Building water resilience for India’s next billion

Water (REPRESENTATIVE PIC)
Published on Feb 28, 2026 05:35 pm IST

Water does not recognise political boundaries: CM Siddaramaiah at int'l conference on dam safety

Water does not recognise political boundaries: CM Siddaramaiah at int'l conference on dam safety
Published on Feb 13, 2026 02:58 pm IST

Experts warn Pune faces five more years of flooded roads

Studies indicate that 30%-40% of rainwater once used to percolate naturally into the earth, easing surface runoff. (HT)
Published on Jun 15, 2025 05:40 am IST

Crunch, crunch: Africa’s locust outbreak is far from over

In this photo taken Tuesday, March 31, 2020, a swarm of desert locusts flies in Kipsing, near Oldonyiro, in Isiolo county, Kenya. Weeks before the coronavirus spread through much of the world, parts of Africa were already threatened by another kind of plague, the biggest locust outbreak some countries had seen in 70 years, and now the second wave of the voracious insects, some 20 times the size of the first, is arriving.
Updated on Jul 05, 2020 01:59 pm IST

Lessons for India from the California forest fires

Firefighter Jose Corona sprays water as flames consume from the Camp Fire consume a home in Magalia, Calif, November 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)
Published on Nov 15, 2018 01:19 pm IST

Our infrastructure must become climate-resilient

Volunteers clean a house following floods, Kochi, August 22
Updated on Aug 30, 2018 07:19 pm IST

Agromet to reach 40 million farmers by June 2019

Experts at the 12th meeting of South Asian Climate Outlook Forum held at IITM in Pune on Thursday.
Updated on Apr 20, 2018 11:00 pm IST