After a long run of around 10 days, tropical storm ‘Biparjoy’ finally made landfall over the Saurashtra-Kutch Coast and adjoining Pakistani coast between Mandvi, Gujarat and Karachi coast near Jakhua port on the evening of June 15. At the time of crossing the coast, Biparjoy was sustaining the strength of a very severe cyclone, with […]
Monsoon mayhem continues to wreak havoc across different parts of India. After battering Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand last week, extreme weather events have now hit South Gujarat. Weather models have failed to predict climate change led extreme rain events, leading to chaotic and sudden situations, leaving little time for preparation. Heavy to extremely heavy rains […]
In January 2003, as the flood waters of the river Thames threatened his house, climate scientist Myles Allen wrote an article to the scientific journal Nature asking a simple question: “Will it ever be possible to sue anyone for damaging the climate?”. In the article, Allen laid out the basis of what he called the […]
Europe is on track to experiencing its worst drought in 500 years, affecting cargo transport, power production, drinking water, animal products (including meat and dairy), and crops. An unusually dry winter and spring, followed by record breaking heat waves that have killed thousands of people across the continent, are to blame. Climate experts said that all heatwaves are now made more likely and […]
Impacts Research / Slow onset disasters Once a leading producer of pear, peach, plum, and apricot and the third largest producer of high quality apples in the country, the yield of major fruit crops have plummeted significantly in Uttarakhand in the last seven years.
Adaptation Witness Impacts / Slow onset disasters The report calls for “immediate, accelerated and relentless mitigation action” to bring down global GHG emissions which set a new record of 57.4 gigatons of CO2 equivalent (GtCO2e) in 2022.
Impacts Research / Slow onset disasters Once a leading producer of pear, peach, plum, and apricot and the third largest producer of high quality apples in the country, the yield of major fruit crops have plummeted significantly in Uttarakhand in the last seven years.
The summer monsoon season is the main agricultural season in India, with much of the central and western regions receiving more than 90% of annual rainfall during this period, and the southern and northwestern regions receiving 50-75%. Around 50% of India’s crop cultivation area is rainfed, making it particularly vulnerable to climate impacts. Agriculture is […]
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