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Topsy-turvy and troubling weather patterns

02 Jun 2020

Scorching heat waves, then deafening thunderstorms – India’s weather woes continue even as the country is attempting to open up after a series of lockdowns. While many parts of...

COVID-19, super cyclone, and now locusts!

26 May 2020

India is bracing for a desert locust invasion. Already battling the coronavirus pandemic and the devastation wreaked by cyclone Amphan, this threat could have disastrous consequences to agriculture and to...

COVID-19 puts Indian polar research in quarantine

19 May 2020

Quarantine and lockdown effects have spread their tentacles as far as the Polar Regions. India’s scientific expeditions to the Poles have either been put on hold or are at a...

Disaster management in vulnerable times

12 May 2020

The United Nations has pointed out that the pandemic has revealed the vulnerability of our global systems when it comes to environmental, health and economic issues. It has also repeatedly...

High cyclone frequency puts IMD in a bind

06 May 2020

Before the pandemic hit, sudden natural weather disasters had become the norm in India, as elsewhere in the world, in the past few years. Even as the lockdown has given...

Natural sightings soar under quarantine

28 Apr 2020

Observations from the natural world to citizen science platforms have soared during the quarantine. Platforms such as eBird and iNaturalist depend on public contribution of data for scientific research and...

Nature advances as humans retreat

08 Apr 2020

As governments and hundreds and thousands of people battle the coronavirus pandemic, cleaner air, empty streets and less human interference seems to have broken nature’s shackles! Earlier this week,...

Lockdown battles virus and helps clear air

31 Mar 2020

Total lockdown, lesser industrial activity, travel restrictions, shutdown of non-essential services, lesser vehicles on the road – measures taken by the Indian government and by governments across the globe to...

Black carbon threatens Gangotri glacier

10 Mar 2020

Agricultural burning and forest fires could trigger large-scale glacial melting in the Gangotri glacier as summer approaches. According to an Indian Ministry of Science & Technology notification, the already...

India’s new battery waste management rules

03 Mar 2020

Battery waste is a huge environmental issue globally. Battery recycling has become one of the major concerns for governments as they contain a number of heavy metals and toxic chemicals....

Meena Janardhan

Writer/Editor/Consultant. She has over 25 years of experience in the fields of environmental journalism and publishing.

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