By Naveed Qazi As rising ethanol demand and El Nino conditions affect India’s sugarcane industry, the…
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Himalayan Alarm: Jammu & Kashmir’s High Peaks Have Heated Up by Nearly 1°C in Just 20 Years
High-Altitude Warming in Jammu & Kashmir Raises Fresh Climate Concerns By Chandrani Sinha A landmark study…
Why Kashmir’s Agriculture is in Crisis: Urbanisation, Climate Change, and Decline of Farmland
By Naveed Qazi Over the past few decades, a growing scholarship has emerged from Kashmir valley,…
Europe’s extreme heat would be impossible without climate change, scientists say
By ALEXA ST. JOHN The Associated Press The record-breaking heat that’s scorching Europe day and night this month would…
The Environmental Cost of AI: Data Centres, Resource Depletion, and the Path to Sustainable Governance
By Naveed Qazi As one of the most influential technologies of our era, artificial intelligence is…
Beyond Lithium: Why India Must Rethink Grid-Scale Energy Storage for Long-Term Energy Security
By Rishi Srivastava & Dr. Tejas Kusurkar, Cofounders Offgrid Energy Labs For half a century, India…
Concrete Heat Traps: Chennai Study Exposes ‘Chronic’ Nighttime Stress in Urban Housing
Millions of India’s urban residents are living in “heat traps” where indoor temperatures peak long after…
The $30 Trillion Blank Slate: Inside the Scientific Blueprint to Build a Net-Zero India from Scratch
Imagine a global superpower where 90% of the cities, power grids, and transit systems required for…
Nallah Maar – A requiem for Srinagar’s buried stream
By Shakoor Rather A wooden boat glides through placid waters against a setting sun as fishermen…
‘Silent Infernos’: Deadly heatwaves imperil lives of women in India and Pakistan
By Shakoor Rather and Izhar Ullah When heatwaves overpower the cities, women are the ones most…