Opinion: Joshimath was a disaster waiting to happen, but nobody paid heed

The town has undergone unplanned construction, drastic road widening and hydropower projects that have ignored multiple warnings.

Joydeep Gupta

· Jan 11, 2023 · 01:30 pm

UN climate talks in Egypt failed to deliver, except on one significant issue

The only solace is the start of a fund to pay poor nations for the loss and damage they are suffering due to climate change.

Joydeep Gupta

· Nov 21, 2022 · 07:30 pm

COP27: UN climate summit has begun in Egypt with little hope of success

Hope for a strong outcome is perhaps at its lowest in the three-decade history of global climate negotiations.

Joydeep Gupta

· Nov 08, 2022 · 07:30 pm

India’s new climate targets make no mention of some of the commitments made to the world in Glasgow

Details of the promise to reduce emissions remain vague while the goal to switch to renewable energy faces considerable financial and infrastructural hurdles.

Joydeep Gupta

· Aug 11, 2022 · 01:30 pm

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

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Varsha Singh

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Soumya Sarkar

· Feb 08, 2021 · 07:30 pm

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

· Dec 14, 2020 · 07:30 pm

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

· Aug 06, 2019 · 08:30 pm

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

· Jun 19, 2019 · 01:30 pm

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

· May 06, 2019 · 08:30 pm

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

· Jun 29, 2018 · 01:30 pm

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

· Jan 16, 2018 · 01:30 pm

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

· May 24, 2017 · 10:30 pm