Tag Climate Change

Climate Finance, News

Nepal’s Climate Compensation Demand Raises a Tough Question: Who Should Pay?

Nepal’s latest demand for climate compensation has brought a familiar climate debate into sharper focus: who should pay when countries that have contributed little to global warming suffer some of its most devastating consequences? Following the catastrophic flash floods that…

Aayushi Gour
September 8, 2026

El Nino, News

El Niño Is Gathering Strength. India Has Reason to Watch Closely

The Pacific Ocean may seem far removed from our everyday lives, but what happens there can eventually show up in our kitchens, our cities, and even our electricity bills. Right now, scientists are watching the ocean closely as El Niño,…

Aayushi Gour
September 7, 2026

Global Warming, News

1.8°C Global Warming: UNEP’s Best-Case Peak Explained

For years, 1.5°C has been treated as the line the world must not cross. The temperature limit, central to the 2015 Paris Agreement, was never meant to suggest that everything below it would be safe. Rather, it represented an important…

Aayushi Gour
September 5, 2026

El Nino, News

Drought, Then Deluge? Sri Lanka’s El Niño Risk Grows

Sri Lanka is entering a critical phase of the 2026 El Niño event, with the country potentially facing a shift from the water shortages and dry conditions experienced in recent months to above-normal rainfall and flooding risks later this year(October-November),…

CFC Sri Lanka
September 3, 2026

El Nino, Explainer

El Niño 2026 Peak Explained: Why the Second Half Will Not Look Like the First

In August, Sri Lanka’s government asked its paddy farmers to plant two weeks early. Water releases, fertiliser distribution and the whole Maha calendar were to be pulled forward so that cultivation could begin in the first days of October rather…

CFC Sri Lanka
August 26, 2026

Agriculture, News

Kasturirangan Report: Why Karnataka’s Areca Growers Are Raising the Alarm

The Western Ghats are often described through numbers: a biodiversity hotspot, the source of major rivers, a landscape spread across several States. But for the people living there, the Ghats are much more personal. They are farms, villages, streams, forests,…

Aayushi Gour
August 25, 2026

Climate Change Impact, Explainer

Beyond Carbon: The Water Crisis Hidden Inside Climate Change

Across the world, a quiet transformation is taking place. Rivers are shrinking, glaciers are retreating, groundwater is being pumped faster than it can recover, and rainfall is becoming increasingly difficult to predict. At the same time, some regions are experiencing…

Aayushi Gour
August 21, 2026

Explainer, Indian Monsoon

One Monsoon, Two Disasters: What India’s Rainfall Deficit Does Not Tell You

Assam has lost more people to this monsoon than any other state, and it has done so while officially short of rain. More than a hundred deaths have been recorded in the state since July, about 50 of them in…

Manjori Borkotoky
August 20, 2026

Heat Wave, News

Successive Heatwaves Pushing Farmers in Europe Into an Unprecedented Crisis

European farmers are facing an increasingly severe agricultural crisis after successive heatwaves and prolonged drought damaged crops, reduced livestock productivity and pushed harvest forecasts sharply lower across the continent. France, Italy and Spain are among the countries reporting major losses,…

Vivek Saini
August 19, 2026

Feature, Indian Monsoon

India’s Monsoon Now Depends on Choices Made Outside India

Air pollution in India is usually discussed as a public health emergency, and it is one. But pollution particles do more than damage lungs. They also change how much sunlight reaches the ground, how fast the land heats up, and,…

Manjori Borkotoky
August 18, 2026