Changing Climate
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Once an ecological hotspot, Nilgiris face higher temperatures and changed rainfall pattern
The altered environmental landscape has enabled invasive species to spread at the cost of the region’s ‘sholas’, or grasslands that support local ecology.
Kaleem Geelani
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In first bilateral pact on climate mobility, Australia to offer Tuvalu residents migration pathway
A new treaty is the result of a request by Tuvalu for Australia to support and assist its efforts on climate change, security and human mobility.
Jane McAdam, The Conversation
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‘We have disturbed the spirits of the land’: Ladakh’s Changpas reckon with changing times
Like many other indigenous peoples, this pastoral community has a custodian relationship with nature. But development and global warming are changing that.
Shrishtee Bajpai & Ashish Kothari
Trending
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Over 17,400 citizens write to EC seeking action against PM Narendra Modi for hate speech
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Australian journalist leaves country amid visa troubles, says ‘too difficult to do my job in India’
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Ramachandra Guha: Why 2024 is India’s most important election since 1977
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‘The Kerala Story’: Why did Catholics re-release a Hindutva movie days before polling?
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Dubai: How a high-altitude jet stream, not cloud seeding, created a storm ‘the size of France’
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As floods and erosion consume the river islands of Bangladesh, thousands are getting displaced
With nowhere to go, most char residents are resettling in city slums.
Rafiqul Islam Montu, IndiaSpend
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In 20 years, only 0.3% of questions raised in Parliament were about climate change: Study
Experts say that politicians in India need to talk more about the looming crisis.
Sahana Ghosh
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First erosion stole their lands. Now climate change is ruining the lives they built on water
The lives and livelihoods of Bangladesh’s Manta people are being battered by increasingly intense cyclones, heavy rains and other natural disasters.
Zakir Hossain Chowdhury, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Video
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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Eco India: How can India deal with its mounting tyre waste?
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Worsening heatwaves are turning dehydration into chronic kidney disease epidemics
Climate change is taking its toll on labourers around the world.
Jane Palmer, Mosaic
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In remote Himalayas, Indian herders are finding new ways around climate change
Everyone thinks the way of life of nomadic pastoralists is dying out. A ground report reveals otherwise.
Janaki Lenin
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Rest assured, wine lovers, your favourite tipple will adapt to climate change
Wine and climate change: 8,000 years of adaptation.
Jean-Robert Pitte, The Conversation
The Reel
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Watch: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ trailer
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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
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In Cannes-bound ‘In Retreat’, a Ladakh that has rarely been seen before
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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The three factors that are threatening yaks in the Himalayas
Interbreeding with cows of Gilgit-Baltistan, or yaks of China, could help revive the animal's population.
Omair Ahmad
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Three charts that show how India might lose 18% of its monsoons
New study shows large-scale deforestation especially in high-latitude countries like Canada and Russia could impact rain in India.
Nayantara Narayanan