Will 2023 be the tipping point for the climate crisis, at least for its effects to hit home? Over the weekend, northwestern India, and especially the hill states, were pounded by sheets of torrential rain that washed away portions of a critical national highway, inundated neighbourhoods and caused landslides that cut off mountain cities and […]
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The monsoon may have landed in India, but only just. And even before it could take hold, cyclone Biparjoy might scuttle it off-course. Last Thursday, the monsoon arrived over Kerala, seven days after it normally arrives in the southern state, even as scientists warned that the onset of the monsoon remained weak, adding to already […]