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Joydeep Gupta
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Uttarakhand floods: The state is paying the price for climate change and reckless construction
As the world warms and glaciers melt, experts recommend a review of ill-planned dams and roads to minimise the impacts of disasters.
Joydeep Gupta, Varsha Singh & Soumya Sarkar
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While meeting its unambitious climate pledge, India is pushing coal-fired power plants
Five years after the landmark Paris Agreement, climate change is gathering pace despite the pandemic-forced hiatus in greenhouse gas emissions.
Joydeep Gupta
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Should Himalayan states be paid a fee for keeping their water clean and forests standing?
The states have asked the central government to pay them for ecosystem services.
Joydeep Gupta
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When India was a ‘land of diamonds’, Russian tsars eagerly tried to build ties with Aurangzeb
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Hockey, Asia Cup, India vs Indonesia, as it happened: India win 16-0 to go through to the Super 4
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Watch: Japanese man transforms himself into a dog with Rs 12 lakh costume
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Behind Gyanvapi’s women petitioners, a network of men who have long fought for Hindutva causes
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Does US have evidence of aliens visiting us on Earth?
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In Marathwada, drought has gone on for so long that farmers have ‘stopped expecting a decent life’
No one in the region remembers the last time they received good rains.
Joydeep Gupta
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Global biodiversity is declining ‘more rapidly than ever’, according to an alarming new report
Around one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction, according to research by a team of international experts.
Joydeep Gupta
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Niti Aayog’s report shows that India’s water crisis is more dire than imagined
This is the first time that the government has officially acknowledged and given details of the country’s water crisis.
Joydeep Gupta
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‘You are doing nothing’: Democrat leader interrupts Texas governor at press conference over gun laws
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‘Single biggest learning experience of my life’: Rahul Gandhi about father Rajiv’s assassination
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Watch: Indo-Tibetan border police play nostalgic childhood game after snowfall in Himachal Pradesh
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Watch: New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern explains how her country implemented gun control
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Watch: This girl with an amputated leg has to hop to school on one foot in a Bihar town
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In Sundarbans, rising sea levels have turned farms into wasteland, threatening to displace millions
Around 1.5 million people will be displaced in the area, and the process has started.
Joydeep Gupta
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Himalayan blunder: Pakistan’s Indus Cascade plan will reduce food and water security
The China-financed project to build five dams on the river will stop the silt flow that rejuvenates farms, reduce water flow.
Joydeep Gupta
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As South Asia braces for another scorching summer, it's time for countries to start planning ahead
Temperatures have exceeded 40°C in many places already.
Joydeep Gupta
The Reel
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Watch: Partition, art and the idea of home in short film ‘The Miniaturist Of Junagadh’
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Watch: ‘The Gray Man’ stars Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Dhanush and Ana de Armas
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‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ trailer: Christian Bale joins Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman
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‘Zollywood’ trailer: Marathi film about Vidarbha’s theatre scene is coming soon to cinemas
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Watch: Teaser of new ‘Mission: Impossible’ film ‘Dead Reckoning Part One’ is out
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A repeat of the 2015 Andhra-Telangana heat wave that killed 2,500 people is 10 times more likely now
A study has found that climate change has raised the probability of deadly heat waves.
Joydeep Gupta
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Climate change, El Nino combined to create possibly the largest drought across the world
The weather condition ended earlier this year, but resultant drought has affected farmers across the world.
Joydeep Gupta
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Trump's presidency may be an unnatural disaster for the environment
If Donald Trump sticks to his denial of climate change after he takes over office as President, the US will be out of efforts to move towards a green economy.
Joydeep Gupta
The Field
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Hockey, Asia Cup: India defeat Indonesia 16-0 to sneak into Super 4s ahead of Pakistan
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Women’s T20 Challenge, Trailblazers v Velocity live: Jemimah, Meghana fall after superb knocks
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Badminton: Lakshya Sen set for another training stint in Dubai with Viktor Axelsen
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Hockey, Asia Cup, India vs Indonesia, as it happened: India win 16-0 to go through to the Super 4
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IPL 2022: LSG captain KL Rahul – ‘Our stats while chasing haven’t been good, we need to improve’