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Five must-know facts about monsoons and climate change

September 9, 2021 By Nick Witts Leave a Comment

The UN’s latest major climate report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the IPCC WG1 – evidence displaying the “physical science basis” for climate change’s effect on monsoons.  India, like many countries, relies on this seasonal rainfall for the sustenance of livelihoods, food supplies, and the upkeep of ways of life […]

Filed Under: Environmental health, Featured Stories Tagged With: agriculture, climate adaptation, climate change, climate mitigation, flooding, monsoon

Did stubble burning fuel Delhi’s third wave?

July 28, 2021 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

Industrial pollution is spreading like clouds and covering the setting sun. West Bengal, India. Pollution is now a global issue and must be checked. Image credit: Rudra Narayan Mitra / 123rf

New research claims that the practice of stubble burning may have been a key driver of Delhi’s third wave of COVID-19 infections.  The study, published in Urban Climate, identified a tenfold increase in the national capital during the biomass burning season which sees agricultural workers in the neighbouring states of Haryana and Punjab burn the […]

Filed Under: Environmental health, Featured Stories, Medicine and Research, National, News, Science and Technology, Social issues Tagged With: agriculture, Air Pollution, air quality, coronavirus, COVID-19, Delhi, environment, Pollution, stubble burning

Climate change is leading to abandonment of villages and ‘forced immobility’ across Uttarakhand

May 24, 2021 By Nick Witts Leave a Comment

Extended monsoon season. Concept.

Vulnerable to both slow- and rapid-onset climate change hazards, threats facing the northern state of Uttarakhand are resulting in climate migration challenges such as abandonment of villages and ‘forced immobility’, according to new research.  Insights from the state published by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre note that climate change-related weather factors have seen disruption to […]

Filed Under: Environmental health, Featured Stories Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, climate migration, climate policy, farming, migration

What is being done to help the Bay of Bengal adapt to the threat of climate change?

February 2, 2021 By Nick Witts Leave a Comment

India’s vulnerability to climate change is well-known among scientists and to most members of the lay public. Climate modeling from the Ministry of Earth Sciences amongst other agencies display projections that serve to underline how susceptible it is to climate change risks.  Whilst more regional projections can sometimes become less certain, the risks for the […]

Filed Under: Featured Stories Tagged With: adaptation, agriculture, climate change, coastal erosion, COP26, cyclone, farming, flooding, housing, sea level rise

Delhi a ‘gas chamber’ once more. Crop burning to blame?

October 19, 2019 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

Pollution has once again turned the national capital into a ‘gas chamber’ according to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal – and he says that crop burning in neighbouring states is to blame.  Every year, paddy field farmers burn between seven and eight million tonnes of crop waste, principally in Haryana and Punjab. Crop burning has been […]

Filed Under: Environmental health, Featured, National, News Tagged With: agriculture, Air Pollution, Delhi, environment, Pollution, urban

Did the state budget promise relief for farmers in Rajasthan?

July 13, 2019 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

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Towards the end of June, 45-year-old Sohan Lal Kadela was found dead in the town of Raisinghnagar in Rajasthan. Lal was a farmer, who took out a crop loan of Rs 2.5 lakh. Unable to repay, and facing pressure to do so, he committed suicide by ingesting pesticides.  “People have been troubling me and demanding […]

Filed Under: Featured Stories, National, News, Social issues Tagged With: agriculture, Congress, Maharashtra, Rahul Gandhi, Rajasthan, suicide

World Environment Day highlights a health crisis

June 5, 2019 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

File:Activities for world environment day in Bhopal (2).jpg. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository

World Environment Day is observed annually on June 5th to commemorate the importance of conserving our environment from the many threats it faces. For India, World Environment Day offers a valuable opportunity to recognise one of the major issues confronting the nation: its poor environmental health, ranked as the worst in the world in the […]

Filed Under: Environmental health, Featured Story, Government policy, International, National, News, Opinion, Science and Technology, Social issues Tagged With: agriculture, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chennai, climate change, Delhi, environment, environmental health, Ganga, government policy, groundwater, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Pollution, Rajasthan, rural health, rural India, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, urban, water

Turn away from trans fats, but don’t look to palm oil

May 24, 2019 By Kerean Watts 1 Comment

palm oil. A palm oil plantation. Image credit: Mohd Hairul Fiza Musa / 123rf

The steps taken by the World Health Organization (Who) to eliminate trans fats from our global food supply are important. However, a key piece of the conversation is missing. What are the alternatives? Trans fats are bad for our health: the WHO reminded us this week that five billion people worldwide are exposed to the […]

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, Environmental health, Featured Stories, International, National, Social issues Tagged With: agriculture, diet, diet and nutrition, environment, food, heart disease, nutrition

When voters boycotted polls because of water scarcity in Gujarat

May 7, 2019 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

Water scarcity concept. Illustration with dam. The Sardar Sarova Dam along the Narmada River in Gujarat. Dams are fixtures of India's water scarcity crisis, as many see their reserves dwindle. Image credit: dinodia / 123rf

In Gujarat last month, voters turned to the polls to protest water scarcity in the state – by sitting them out entirely. The 17th Lok Sabha polls in Ahmedabad was the scene of fanfare on April 23rd, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi cast his vote in this year’s elections. However, elsewhere in the state, many […]

Filed Under: Environmental health, Featured Story, National, News, Social issues Tagged With: 2019 general election, agriculture, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, drought, environment, environmental health, groundwater, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Narendra Modi, Odisha, Rajasthan, suicide, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, water

India’s water woes are bigger than you think

April 8, 2019 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

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It is not even summer season and great swathes of India’s land are suffering from drought, recently published data reveals. This is according to an IndiaSpend analysis of figures from the Drought Early Warning System (DEWS), which contains dire implications for an enormous number of Indians and a sizeable proportion of the country’s land. At […]

Filed Under: Environmental health, Featured Story, National, News, Social issues Tagged With: agriculture, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, climate change, drought, environment, environmental health, food, groundwater, Gujarat, heatwave, industry, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala floods, Maharashtra, Odisha, Pollution, population, River Ganga, sanitation, suicide, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, water

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