Annual climate summary 2023
The report discusses the climate condition over Indian region during the year 2023. Notably, global temperatures soared to exceptionally high levels during this period (WMO.No.1347). The India Meteorological
Monsoons
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Erratic rain: Govt must ensure food security
BHUBANESWAR: The inconsistent monsoon seems to have clouded the food security issue of the common man. The country is going to see a 10 million tonne fall in rice output this kharif season with Orissa being a significant contributor to reduced productivity.
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The monsoon effect (Editorial)
The annual monsoon has always been perceived both as a rural blessing and an urban curse
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Dealing with monsoon failure
Besides coping with the drought of 2009, strategies to live with monsoon failure need to be formulated. (Editorial)
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Fresh rains rekindle hope of crop revival
With the second round of showers starting in almost all the districts of south Gujarat, the hope of crop revival has been rekindled. Farmer community across Valsad, Navsari, Surat, Bharuch and Narmada districts of the region are happy that their crops of paddy and sugarcane will get a new lease of life.
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Plastic ban works: less waste, no monsoon flooding in Vile Parle vegetable market
Mumbai The Vile Parle (E) vegetable market has become cleaner and greener in the three months since it imposed a plastic ban on itself. Since May, when the public-private trial initiative began, the BMC has noted a significant reduction in plastic wastes in the area since May. This has prevented clogging of drains and resulted in reduced flooding.
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Dry river basins disturbing ground water levels
Surinder Sud / August 27, 2009, 0:32 IST
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2,000-year-long temperature and hydrology reconstructions from the Indo-Pacific warm pool
Temperature reconstructions for the surface of the Northern Hemisphere are based largely on terrestrial records from extra-tropical or high-elevation sites, despite the fact that global average surface temperature changes closely follow those of the global tropics, which are 75 per cent ocean.
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Climate change & Indian monsoon: some key issues
This presentation by B N Goswami, Director, IITM at CSE's South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change warns that climate change has affected the monsoon pattern in India & the days of long-duration rains in Central India are almost gone.
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A Season Of Discontent
THOSE WHO attended the chief secretaries
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Driving water under ground
A Nasa mission revealed Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan lost 109 cubic km of water in six years. With pumps being sunk in ever deeper, a bad monsoon has only shown how close to the edge we live Rajeev Deshpande & Nitin Sethi