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April 15, 2026

India's 2026 Monsoon Could Be Below Normal — For the First Time in 11 Years

India’s Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued its April forecast projecting the 2026 monsoon will be “below normal”…

April 09, 2026

Mumbai's April heatwave is leading to surge in gut infections

Hospital emergency wards across Mumbai are seeing a 50% surge in gut infections. Heat speeds up bacterial reproduction i…

April 08, 2026

It's not just your cooking gas; the war may also affect the Kharif crops

India imports LNG from Qatar — the raw material for making fertilisers domestically — and finished fertilisers from Gulf…

April 07, 2026

While India Scrambles for LPG, This UP Village Has Solved It

In Ekauni village in Chandauli district, eastern Uttar Pradesh, 125+ households cook on biogas, paying no more than ₹400…

April 03, 2026

Why is India’s weather behaving like a Rohit Shetty climax?

Yesterday, Pune got battered with intense rain for 2 hours, the highest April rainfall in 128 years! It led to floods, p…

April 02, 2026

The King of Fruits Is in Trouble

The climatic conditions mangoes depend on are becoming unreliable. The fruit needs warm days, cool winters to trigger fl…

March 28, 2026

Maharashtra's latest effort to control leopard-human conflict with birth-control

Junnar (Pune district) has ~7 leopards per 100 sq km, which is similar to the density of leopards in the Tadoba tiger re…

March 23, 2026

El Nino likely in 2026; Hotter summer and weak monsoon for India

Scientists are predicting a 62% chance of El Nino developing by August 2026.

March 22, 2026

We are in the era of 'Water bankruptcy'; India Is One of the Worst Hit

The state of our water is so acute that calling it a 'water crisis' is not cutting it any more. So in January, scientist…

March 21, 2026

The end of Spring: India Jumps Straight from Winter to Summer

You couldn't have missed how quickly we moved from winter to summer this year. It felt like we completely by-passed spri…

March 20, 2026

The Dark Side of Solar: Why Rajasthan's Villagers are fighting a Solar Project

A group of villagers started a 700 km march in January from Jaisalmer to Jaipur to stop solar parks from swallowing thei…

March 19, 2026

The Local Solution to the Global LPG Crisis

We’ve all read about the LPG crisis in India — global supply disruptions have made cooking gas harder to get. Households…

September 25, 2025

Monsoon Became the Season of Devastating Floods

Uttarakhand (Dharali): Heavy rainfall and flash floods on August 5.

February 10, 2025

Climate Change Made Bangalore's Filter Coffee More Expensive

The Bruhat Bengaluru Hotel association announced a 10-15% filter coffee price increase due to arabica powder surging Rs …