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.
India’s Kerala has been hit by extreme monsoon rainfall and floods.
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.
Is climate change changing the monsoon?
A new study details that India could see a dramatic rise in heat waves events which could be fatal.
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.
A New Delhi traffic policeman wearing an air pollution mask. Photo credit: Reuters / Adnan Abidi / Files. By Anders Lorenzen Last year in order to combat air pollution, […]
Photo credit: Surukai via Flickr. By Sebastian H. Strumann When the Paris climate talks (and the mutual back-patting) came to a close, politicians and environmentalists around the globe celebrated the […]
Photo credit: Sten Dueland via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen I recently wrote how renewables have had a record year in 2014. Investments in renewable energy sources have increased by an […]
Photo credit: Cop 20 By guest contributor Joydeep Gupta Countries are setting out their positions in Lima to negotiate a global climate deal in Paris at the end of next […]
