The Ken-Betwa Link Project aims to address Bundelkhand’s water scarcity through river interlinking, irrigation, and hydropower generation. However, concerns over displacement, forest loss, wildlife habitat fragmentation, and rehabilitation continue to fuel debates over equitable development.
Delhi’s annual monsoon flooding is no longer just a consequence of heavy rainfall. Poor drainage infrastructure, rapid urbanisation, and increasing impervious surfaces have made the capital highly vulnerable to urban flooding. This article examines why Delhi floods every year, its public health and economic impacts, and the sustainable solutions that can build a flood-resilient city.
The UN’s methane roadmap sets ambitious 2030 targets, but India’s absence from the Global Methane Pledge reflects the challenge of balancing climate action with food security.
Western Europe registered its hottest June on record as heat-breaking weather smashed national temperature records across several European nations within days this summer. Temperatures in Denmark topped 37C – beating a previous high that has stood since 1975 – as 39.4C in the Netherlands on June 26 set a new national high, and Bilbao in…
By 9 July 2026, Gurugram had 115mm of rain in just 33 hours. The water, knee-deep in some parts of Golf Course Road, stranded commuters for hours; the city drowned in its filled spaces. Barely days before this, Noida Sector 115, the Malkapur roundabout of Greater Noida, was submerged in a knee-deep deluge as at…
Even as the government battles back on E20 petrol from mileage complaints, the real struggle for the biofuel is on fields and water beds in India and elsewhere. New Delhi, July 10, the Indian Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas admitted for the first time that its new E20 fuel (petrol blended with 20 percent…
Climate discourse often treats decarbonisation like a universal one-pot recipe: add renewables, subtract fossil fuels, stir in net-zero targets, and serve before 2050. But for countries in the Global South such as India, still navigating poverty alleviation, industrial growth, and reliable energy access simultaneously, the transition cannot be copypasted from the Global North template. India…
If India lags in switching to a more climate-friendly steelmaking method, a recent United Nations report finds that its top steel exports could decline by up to 30 percent by 2035 as key trading nations impose a carbon-content-based border tax. But if India moves early, then it can trim the decline to just 10 percent….
Every year, the same Indian cities make headlines twice over. In June, newspapers report bone-dry reservoirs and residents lining up behind water tankers. By August, the same streets are underwater, cars floating past flooded metro stations. Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai, and Delhi have all lived through this strange double crisis: too little water one season, too…
Agriculture Under Growing Climate and Disaster Risks India’s agricultural sector is becoming more prone to the dual effects of natural calamities and climate change. In recent years, farmers in various regions of the country have suffered from an increasing frequency of extreme weather events such as unseasonal rain, hailstorms, droughts, floods, cyclones, heat waves, cold…
