India’s Electric Mobility Needs Enabling Infrastructure to Pick up Speed

NEW DELHI, Dec 6 2019 (IPS) – Dogged by intractable air pollution debilitating large northern swathes from mainly urban vehicle emissions, India earlier this year announced targets for a 40 percent non-fossil component in...

Mother Earth’s Café Dares Climate Crises in India

“Come post-monsoon it’s mushroom time,” the 60-year old grandmother of six tells IPS in this street corner of Shillong city — perched 1,525 metres above sea level in the Indian Himalaya’s north-east Meghalaya State....

India’s Outdoor Workers on the Frontlines of Climate Change

NEW DEHLI, Feb 5 2020 (IPS) – Last June when more than half of India was reeling under daily temperatures topping 40 degrees Celsius, Nursing Behera’s 11-month-old son burned both his legs when a...

Is India on Track to Beat the Perfect Storm?

NEW DELHI, Aug 12 2019 (IPS) – “The Perfect Storm” was a dire prediction that by 2030 food shortages, scarce water and insufficient energy resources together with climate change would threaten to unleash public...

India’s Unique Water Purification Wetland Could Soon Become Extinct

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....

‘A sly thief’: Rising heat steals jobs and lives in eastern India

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...

Beyond shelter in a storm, Odisha eyes sturdier homes, power and trees

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...

Where goats drink first: Women struggle as coastal India grows saltier

Faced with drinking, bathing in and working in saltier water as a result of climate change, women are facing new health threats GOSABA, India, Oct 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Dripping wet and looking...

As climate threats drive migration, Indian women find opportunities

Migration is bringing some families higher incomes – and improving life back home in the face of worsening climate pressures SONAGOAN, India, Oct 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In the last inhabited villages deep...

As sand mining grows, Asia’s deltas are sinking, water experts warn

Without enough sand arriving to maintain themselves, deltas are eroding, bringing worsening flooding and land loss STOCKHOLM, Sept 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Sand mining from rivers is depriving many low-lying Asian deltas of...