Gurinder Kaur
India needs to wake up to severe air pollution
Posted on 10 Sep, 2021 10:32 AMTwo studies released on September 1, 2021, on the damage to human health due to increasing air pollution in India have revealed very worrying facts.
![According to a Greenpeace India report released on January 21, 2020, 80 per cent of the country's cities are polluted by national standards (Image: Max Pixel, License CC0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-09/Sunrise-Air-Industry-Smog-Air-Pollution-Pollution-1761801.jpg?itok=VGUYqobm)
Floods and recurring natural disasters in India
Posted on 04 Aug, 2021 09:59 AMAfter two weeks of extremely hot and long dry weather, the monsoon winds brought heavy rains to the hilly northern states of India (Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand) and the south-west coastal states (Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, and Kerala). Cloudbursts and landslides have wreaked havoc.
![Floods in Uttarkashi (Image: Oxfam International; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-08/9133804037_11624a0be1_o.jpg?itok=onegFPEr)
The lessons learnt from Cyclone Yaas
Posted on 31 May, 2021 11:03 PMOn May 26, Cyclone Yaas from the Bay of Bengal hit the coast in Bhadrak district near the Bahanaga block north of Dhamra port
![Cyclone Yaas slammed into the north Odisha coast near Balasore on May 26, 2021 (Image: NASA Earth Observatory)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-05/cycloneyaas_tmo_2021-NASA%E2%80%99s%20Earth%20Observatory.jpg?itok=HDQijEGf)
Protecting India from maritime disasters
Posted on 25 May, 2021 04:41 PMOn May 17, 2021 Cyclone Tauktae, the first extremely severe cyclone from the Arabian Sea in over two decades, barrelled up the country’s western coast, making its landfall in Gujarat.
![Cyclone Tauktae intensified into an ‘extremely severe cyclonic storm’ and made a landfall on coastal Gujarat leaving a trail of destruction behind. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-05/Tauktae_2021-05-18_1600Z.png?itok=vPA2b4nM)
Serious efforts needed to curb carbon emissions
Posted on 07 May, 2021 07:45 PMThe Leaders’ Summit on Climate hosted by the United States President Joe Biden has come to a successful conclusion.
![On January 20, 2021 United States rejoined the Paris Accord (Image: Kai Stachowiak; Public Domain license)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-05/climate.jpg?itok=uOoR1Nmk)
Lights out to mark the Earth Hour
Posted on 26 Mar, 2021 04:25 PMEarth Hour is observed on the last Saturday of March each year in almost all countries to raise people’s awareness of natural disasters due
![Through this year’s theme, awareness is being raised about the crisis of nature loss, climate change and global warming (Image: SomeCG, Pixabay)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-03/earth%20hour.jpg?itok=9dSoSxbI)
Need to revamp developmental planning in the Uttarakhand hills
Posted on 12 Feb, 2021 11:02 AMThe recent catastrophe in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, where a large part of the Nanda Devi Glacier fell into the Alaknanda stream near Joshimath, caused severe flooding. The rapid flow of water caused mountain slides that fell into deep ravines destroying all the houses and structures that came in their path.
![The glacial burst in Chamoli is nature’s way of telling the state not to play havoc with the local ecology. (Image: Down to Earth)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-02/chamoli.jpg?itok=g0VBzARQ)
India faced with the onslaught of rising temperature
Posted on 18 Jan, 2021 11:14 AMOn January 4, 2021, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) released a report titled
![2020 was one of the warmest years in India despite La Nina which typically has a cooling effect on global temperatures.(Image: Tumisu, Pixabay)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/tumisu.jpg?itok=1jbZ7CJA)
Child malnutrition rises in five years, as per NFHS-5 data
Posted on 13 Jan, 2021 10:08 AMGovernment of India has recently released the data of the first round of National Family Health Survey-5, 2019-20.
![Children born between 2014 and 2019 are more malnourished than those before. (Image: PxHere)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/children_1.jpg?itok=6iSihkcF)