Arunachal’s birds: canary in the coalmine
Birds in this biodiversity hotspot are shifting their ranges upslope, signalling serious ecological damage in the eastern Himalayas. Alarmed at the change, local people are actively participating in conservation efforts
August 4, 2023 | Vishaka George
'Oh, that house? It’s in the sea now – there!'
In AP’s East Godavari district, residents of Uppada village rely on instinct to tell what the sea will claim next. The fast-receding shoreline has altered their livelihoods, social relations and collective memory
February 28, 2022 | Rahul M.
Battle of the bugs: on wings of climate change
India is seeing huge declines in native insect species – several of them tied closely to our food security. But it’s hard to get humans viewing insects with the warmth they reserve for, say, furry mammals
September 22, 2020 | Priti David
The Great Coral Grief of Lakshadweep islands
India’s smallest union territory, just 1-2 metres above sea level on average – and where every seventh person is a fisherman – is losing its coral reefs and facing the impact of climate change at multiple levels
September 12, 2020 | Sweta Daga
In Thane, the rain has gone rogue
Dharma Garel and others in the Adivasi hamlets of Shahapur taluka of Maharashtra may not speak of ‘climate change’, but are daily confronting its effects directly, including erratic rainfall and falling yields
August 25, 2020 | Jyoti Shinoli
Churu: Blowing hot, blowing cold – mainly hot
In June 2019, Churu, Rajasthan, recorded a global high of 51°Celsius. For many here though that was just one milestone in an expanding summer and other odd changes in seasons that clearly point to climate change
June 02, 2020 |
Sharmila Joshi
When Yamuna’s ‘dead fish will be fresher’
Effluents and apathy have reduced Delhi's lifeline to a sewer. Thousands of fish die annually while the Yamuna's original custodians have nowhere to go. It all feeds into and spurs a climate crisis
January 22, 2020 | Shalini Singh
Big city, small farmers, and a dying river
City farmers? Yes, sort of – in the national capital, struggling as a choked Yamuna river and the destruction of its floodplains spur the region’s climate crisis and devastates their livelihoods
December 19, 2019 | Shalini Singh
The shrinking pomfret of suburban Mumbai
Many in Versova Koliwada have a story to tell of dwindling fish – the reasons range from local-level pollution to global-scale warming. Both have combined to bring the impact of climate change to the city’s shores
December 4, 2019 | Subuhi Jiwani
Tamil Nadu’s seaweed harvesters in rough seas
An unusual activity of the fisherwomen of Bharathinagar in Tamil Nadu keeps them more in the water than on boats. But climate change and overexploitation of marine resources are eroding their livelihoods
October 31, 2019 | M. Palani Kumar
Belated rains, beleaguered farmers in Bhandara
This district in Vidarbha, which for long had adequate water resources, is seeing new rainfall patterns. Now listed as a 'climate hotspot', the changes in Bhandara are bringing uncertainty and losses for paddy farmers
October 23, 2019 | Jaideep Hardikar
‘Cotton has now become a headache’
A chemical-intensive Bt cotton monoculture is spreading through Odisha’s Rayagada district – harming health, deepening debt, irreversibly eroding indigenous knowledge, and sowing the seeds of a climate crisis
October 7, 2019 | Aniket Aga and Chitrangada Choudhury
Sowing the seeds of climate crisis in Odisha
In Rayagada, Bt cotton acreage has risen by 5,200 per cent in 16 years. The result: this biodiversity hotspot, rich in indigenous millets, rice varieties and forest foods, is seeing an alarming ecological shift
October 4, 2019 | Chitrangada Choudhury and Aniket Aga
Counting sheep as grasslands shrink in Gujarat
Pastoralists from Kachchh walk great distances in search of grazing lands for their sheep in Gujarat, even as pastures disappear or become inaccessible, and climate patterns get ever more erratic
September 23, 2019 | Namita Waikar
Sundarbans: ‘Not a blade of grass grew…’
People in the Sundarbans of West Bengal, for long living on the edge, are now facing climate change – recurring cyclones, erratic rain, growing salinity, rising heat, depleting mangroves and more
September 10, 2019 | Urvashi Sarkar
‘The happy days are now just nostalgia’
In the high mountains of the eastern Himalayas in Arunachal Pradesh, the nomadic Brokpa community is recognising climate change and devising coping strategies based on traditional knowledge
September 2, 2019 | Ritayan Mukherjee
Hailstorms at 43°C wreck farming in Latur
Villagers in Maharashtra’s Latur district are baffled by the heavy and intense hailstorms in summer that have hit them this past decade. Some farmers are giving up on orchards altogether
August 26, 2019 | Parth M.N.
‘Everything has turned upside down’ in Sangole
Villages in Sangole taluka of Maharashtra’s Solapur district are brimming with stories of how the old cyclical pattern of good rainfall and dry spells has been broken – and why and with what impact
August 19, 2019 | Medha Kale
‘Today we seek those fish in Discovery Channel’
Kadal Osai, a community radio of and for fisherfolk on Pamban island of Tamil Nadu’s Ramanathapuram district, turns three this week. And it's making waves – with climate change as its latest focus
August 12, 2019 | Kavitha Muralidharan
‘Why is the climate changing like this?’
Coffee and pepper farmers in Wayanad, Kerala, are reeling under losses caused by a rise in temperatures and erratic rainfall in a district whose residents once boasted of its ‘air-conditioned climate’
August 5, 2019 | Vishaka George
‘Perhaps we made the mountain god angry’
Nomadic Changpa pastoralists at the high grazing grounds of Ladakh find their yak-related economy in a crisis that is driven by major climatic shifts in their fragile mountainous ecosystems
July 22, 2019 | Ritayan Mukherjee
Buffaloed by the climate in Kolhapur
Human-wildlife conflict is escalating in Radhanagari, Kolhapur, where the gaur buffalo are raiding nearby farms. This is spurred by deforestation, cropping changes, drought and fluctuating weather patterns
July 17, 2019 | Sanket Jain
It’s raining sand in Rayalaseema
Crop pattern changes, waning forest cover, an explosion of borewells, the death of a river, and more – have produced dramatic effects on land, air, water, forests and climate in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur district
July 8, 2019 | P. Sainath
