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Sometimes tragedy does not arrive with noise. It comes quietly, like rising water that first touches your feet and then slowly climbs until it enters every corner of life. This is what happened across Southeast Asia, where severe floods and landslides have taken over fifteen hundred lives and are forcing millions to leave their homes….
When UNICEF issued its latest alert on December 1, 2025, the message was not dramatic. It was disturbing. More than 23 million children under the age of five in fifteen countries now face acute malnutrition due to climate vulnerability. These are not projections. These are current numbers based on real-time nutritional and climate assessments carried…
At COP26, when India made its bold promise to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2070, very few places captured the promise of this ambition as vividly as the Northeast. Nestled in the Himalayas and enriched by forests, rivers, and biodiversity, the eight Northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, and Sikkim…
When the UN shared the Food and Agriculture Organization’s shocking headline “Nearly 1.7 billion people live in areas where land degradation is impacting agricultural productivity and threatening food security,” it summarized a global assessment effort, but that’s a complicated technical report condensed down to a single socialize media line. However, the line encapsulates a broad…
Photo Credit: Paresh Kumar Clear Cut Climate DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Oct 03, 2025 01:13 ISTWritten By: Paresh Kumar WASHINGTON, D.C: Billions lack safe toilets. Floods and droughts wreck what’s left. Climate change turns a basic need into a deadly trap. A new World Bank report sounds the alarm. It’s time to rethink sanitation. Or watch cities drown…
Photo Credit: carribean.un.org Clear Cut Gender DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 24, 2025 12:15 ISTWritten By: Janmojaya Barik The oceans are in crisis, and the evidence is now impossible to ignore. Scientists have verified that the world is witnessing its most widespread and intense coral bleaching episode ever recorded. From the Great Barrier Reef to the…
Photo Credit: Antara Mrinal Clear Cut Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 13, 2025 11:16 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal On a brisk morning in Chakrata, a town in Uttarakhand, the answer to the sound of raindrops falling is the thumping of wooden cogs amidst the flow of a rushing river. In a humble stone structure that…
Photo Credit : India Today Clear Cut Climate DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 10, 2025 05:15 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal A Himalayan Wake-Up Call The monsoons have wreaked havoc on the state of Himachal Pradesh. Since 20 June, monsoon rains have led to 135 major landslides, 95 flash floods, and 45 cloudbursts. The human loss has…
