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Arunachal Pradesh’s Dibang Valley is marked as having received no rainfall between June 1 and July 19 on the IMD website. The district normally receives 631.7 mm of rain during this period, making the zero-rainfall entry unusual. Local officials say rainfall has occurred in Dibang Valley, while the state meteorological centre says the district’s only […]

The IMD has issued Red Alerts for Himalayan states as extremely heavy rainfall raises the risk of landslides, flash floods and river swelling. Delhi-NCR remains under an Orange Alert with heavy rain, thunderstorms and strong winds expected to continue over the coming days. Heavy to very heavy rainfall is forecast across Assam, Meghalaya, Bihar, Uttar

The impacts of a strengthening El Niño and the lingering effects of the war in Iran highlight two separate and seemingly unrelated global hazards. But in the Greater Horn of Africa, an area already beset by prolonged crisis and conflict, these factors are combining with others to potentially create a major, multicountry polycrisis. As experts

Local police and administration brought to an end the ‘Chinta Andolan’ (pyre protests) being held since July 3, 2026, by people affected by the Ken-Betwa Link and other projects near Kupi village in the Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh. At 5 am on the morning of July 19, a large number of police and administrative

West Bengal and Sikkim remain under Red Alert as extremely heavy rainfall is expected in several areas due to active monsoon systems. Uttarakhand, Assam, Meghalaya and Chhattisgarh face Orange Alert with forecasts of heavy to very heavy rainfall and possible disruptions. Delhi-NCR may receive light showers, but high humidity and warm temperatures will continue to

Climate change in Jammu and Kashmir has stopped being a subject for seminar rooms and started becoming a lived, dated, witnessed event. This July, over the span of five days, the sacred ice formation at the Amarnath cave, revered by pilgrims as a manifestation of Lord Shiva and the physical centre of one of Hinduism’s

On May 15, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast that the southwest monsoon would reach Kerala by May 26, five days ahead of the usual date. It arrived on June 4, three days late. That nine-day gap, at the coarsest scale the monsoon is tracked, an entire coastline rather than one farmer’s field, is this

For months I had been watching El Niño build on a screen — El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) probabilities climbing week after week, sea-surface temperatures warming in the equatorial Pacific, the seasonal outlooks tilting steadily towards “below normal.” It is one thing to read a risk in a dashboard. It is another to feel it

Imagine a slab of ice so massive it could cover the entire city of Delhi nearly three times over. This isn’t just an iceberg; it’s a wandering frozen continent that has disintegrated before its 40th birthday. However, by 2026, after nearly 40 years of being battered by warmer waves and meltwater, the once-mighty A23a disintegrated