World Wetlands Day is on Sunday, Feb. 2. IPS senior correspondent Manipadma Jena marks the day by visiting the East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW), a unique wetland that operates as a natural water purification ecosystem....
Heatwaves – set to worsen as climate change strengthens – are cutting working hours and income, with the poor struggling to stay cool. BHUBANESWAR, India, Nov 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – “This extreme heat...
India has become proficient at saving lives by evacuating people ahead of major storms, but infrastructure has taken a battering BHUBANESWAR, India, June 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Six weeks after India’s eastern state...