India: Farmers push back desertification in Odisha
Community interventions to dig wells and ponds has enabled farmers to fight drought and halt the trend of desertification in Odisha’s Balangir district.
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Category Archives: India
Narendra Modi: Gandhi showed us how we can fight climate and terrorism
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that we can learn from Gandhi’s values when it comes to tackling climate change.
Sun empowers Maharashtra farmers
Electricity for farm work is now solar-powered by the state power distribution company. The success of this initiative can be a model for other states
Analysis: India sees an encouraging rise of green finance
A growing and persistent need to reduce carbon emissions have led to an increase in funding for innovative green projects in India.
Migrant workers turn climate refugees twice over
It has been a double whammy for migrant workers fleeing the unprecedented Kerala floods back home to the Sundarbans in West Bengal, a region that is anyway facing the brunt of climate change.
Summer 2018: Extreme weather strikes again, this time in Kerala
India’s Kerala has been hit by extreme monsoon rainfall and floods.
India’s renewables sector to provide jobs bonanza
The rapid expansion of wind and solar power capacity in India is set to expand the employment market by as much as 300,000, according to the International Labour Organisation.
Analysis: Everything about the monsoon is changing
Is climate change changing the monsoon?
Fatal heat waves to rise in India
A new study details that India could see a dramatic rise in heat waves events which could be fatal.
Climate-resilient organic cotton stages a comeback
To cope with changing rainfall patterns and crop failures, some farmers in northern Karnataka have restarted growing organic cotton varieties that require much lower inputs and water to cultivate.
