Amanda Gearing, Queensland University of Technology As I write this, fires are consuming huge swathes of Australia and conditions are expected to worsen. The […]
How prepared are urban poor to face climate change induced disasters? On the 10th of November, the morning after cyclone Bulbul passed through Odisha […]
Insurgent South Asian rivers breached embankments repeatedly, turning engineered floodplains into hydrological dystopias, but dams kept getting built, and embankments kept getting longer and […]
If things continue in the present manner, India will have all the top 10 slots for the most polluted cities in the world; Delhi, […]
Unusually heavy rainfall has hit 29 counties across the country, causing widespread displacement including in Akobo, Pibor and Lankien Houses have been destroyed and […]
As wildfires grow more frequent, so do concerns for wine country field workers, who can face conditions that jeopardize their health, wages and housing. […]
Akhtar Hafeez Dam construction and other upstream activities have left the fishing communities in Pakistan along the Indus with little to fish, and livelihoods […]
Day Zero is not necessarily the day when water availability will be zero. In reality, the kind of water crisis our cities are already […]
Monica Evans A firefighter’s account of the country’s burning dry forests When firefighter Daniela Azero and her team first saw the extent of the […]
The world is suffering from a crisis of politics. The old ideas have collapsed and the new ideas enjoying an unchallenged run almost everywhere […]
City-dwellers can no longer ignore the destruction of coastal green corridors such as the mangrove forests. They can’t either leave all responsibility to the […]
The World Meteorological Congress has approved a package of sweeping reforms to embrace a more comprehensive Earth system approach, with a stronger focus on water resources and the ocean, more […]