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Agriculture fields flooded

FAQ on Punjab floods September 2025: What you need to know

07 Sep 2025

6 min read

Flash floods in Uttarakhand

Cloudbursts, landslides, and floods: Why Uttarakhand’s fragile Himalayas are breaking under pressure

30 Aug 2025

5 min read

As Tropical Cyclone Phailin made its way over the Bay of Bengal towards the eastern Indian coast with winds recorded at over 200kmph, a massive evacuation exercise was triggered in the coastal Indian states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh

Cyclones and climate change: Mapping social inequality in India’s vulnerable coastal communities

29 Aug 2025

6 min read

Flash floods can unleash havoc and disrupt lives and livelihoods besides increasing deaths

Flash floods threaten India’s Safe Zones: Climate change re-draws the risk map

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

15 Aug 2025

5 min read

A cloudburst is a sudden, intense downpour that can trigger flash floods.

FAQ: Understanding cloudbursts in the Indian Himalayas and how to stay safe

14 Aug 2025

7 min read

Mumbai’s Sau Meenatai Thackeray Flower Market loaded with fresh stock of flowers

Before the Flowers Bloom: Climate Stress and Shifting Livelihoods in Maharashtra’s Flower Economy

18 Jul 2025

8 min read

Floods are changing in India, and we need to be prepared

Are India’s floods getting smaller or stronger? Surprising trends in river behaviour explained

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

28 Jun 2025

5 min read

Damaged by cyclone (Image: Yezdani Rahman)

When summer brings cyclones: Lessons the subcontinent can’t ignore

26 May 2025

5 min read

Planting mangroves to protect the coastline: A community-driven approach to climate adaptation (Image: SEEDS)

Vetiver grass, mangroves, and ponds: Fighting erosion and climate change in the Sundarbans

26 Feb 2025

6 min read

Aftermath of a 2022 landslide on Nedumpoil ghat road in Kerala

Kerala launches an advanced weather alert system to cope with disasters

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

05 Feb 2025

5 min read

Glacial lake flood threat in the Himalayas (Image: Flickr Commons, MattW, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

GLOFs: Sikkim's ticking time bomb

Saurabh Kaushik

03 Feb 2025

5 min read

The mighty Himalayas

A regional disaster risk reduction hub for the Himalayas inaugurated

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

16 Jan 2025

5 min read

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