“IN THE LONG RUN, cooling India’s cities will mean changing the way they are built.” Re upping my 2023 piece on short and long term solutions for urban heat. India still hasn’t gone beyond short term reactions to the necessary long-term urban planning. https://t.co/4q8CRlWsz7
Superb from @ananthkrishnan - fabulous to have him back in China and reporting. He provides the Indian lens we desperately need, away from intermediation of all reportage and analysis on China through the western prism.
Unusually warm nights have increased much faster than hot days in Mumbai, shows data from @CEEWIndia CRAVIS platform. While global warming is primary driver, it’s amplified by local urban heat island effect, which traps heat in cities long after the sun goes down. Link follows:
"We'll have to live like beggars if the land is gone."
Land is being forcibly snatched away from Dalit farmers in Andhra for a giant Google data center. The @ercinvestigates report has been blocked on Insta, thanks to dear Govt of India. Still up on YT:
https://t.co/sVB0DbZ5E0
Particulate matter pollution rose over 20% across Indo-Gangetic Plain in a decade, Himalayas no longer insulated: Study - The Times of India https://t.co/TmRFwwo1jq
@IndiaDST kindly release the first installment of the sanctioned projects of the last call (recommended 2 years back). All our collaborators from different BRICS countries have received their fundings from their Government agencies. Only Indian PIs did not receive the funds.
"How does every Muslim become a Bangladeshi?" asks Aleem Qureshi, one of the many whose house was bulldozed by the railways in Bandra, Mumbai. That's a question that resonates with what's happening all over #India2026@mumbaimirror
https://t.co/ArYAIXL2l6
Salt pan workers in Gujarat’s Kachchh district suffer serious health problems escalated by a severe shortage of potable water and non-functioning health centres
Story by @VidyaKrishnan
.@Rukmini: The monthly average salary in India increased by about 90% from 2012 to 2024 in nominal terms, meaning that it nearly doubled in just over a decade. But adjusting for inflation, the average salary actually fell 4% over the period. https://t.co/Bxbrxhzwdb
@PARInetwork has been tracking the impact of US-Iran war on rural India. This is 6th part of this imp series
From one of the country's most sacred cremation grounds in #Varanasi
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https://t.co/kw8xjku3R6
As David Attenborough turns 100 on May 8, Indian naturalists, conservationists, writers, filmmakers, and wildlife experts reflect on his conservation and climate impact
https://t.co/8BuwxvmN7L
I've been following the journey of Dhaval Lakshmi, the rehabilitated turtle who was released from Dahanu with a satellite tracker and set off across the Arabian Sea. Now she's back in Indian waters.
Dalit and Adivasi villagers who opposed a Vedanta project were not only arrested, but the Orissa High Court also ordered them to clean police stations.
https://t.co/Oeh2edXbKL
Our white paper on extreme heat in India just got published by @HarvardSalata and yes, the timing is rather unfortunately suitable:
https://t.co/ZD7IL9qoNf