Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled “CSE report finds dangerous increase in ozone pollution across urban India” appearing in Down to Earth dated 06.08.2024. The Principal Bench of the NGT heard the matter on March 21, 2025. In the original application, registered suo …
The environmental implications of rainfall pattern in the recharge of groundwater system of Saharanpur regionl located in Uttar Pradesh, have been discussed. The mathematical analysis of rainfall variation of Saharanpur district for a period of 25 years (1982-2006) displays a fairly good range from 497.70 to 1566.10 mm with an …
P. Sunderarajan NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department on Friday forecast that over the next one week, rainfall activity over western, central and peninsular parts of the country is likely to remain subdued, even as Bihar, sub-Himalayan West Bengal and the north eastern region could continue to experience enhanced rainfall. …
Archita Bhatta and Rohini Rangarajan Met department is not the only one predicting weather in India. Forecasts are now sold by businesses to businesses
Farmers are opting for weather-based crop insurance due to frequent weather disturbances. Prashant Bachhav is one of them. He has six hectares (ha) in Nashik district in Maharashtra. Monsoon normally arrives in Nashik by June 10. Accordingly, Bachhav sowed jowar and bajra by mid-June. This year rainfall was sparse in …
Aparna Pallavi and Archita Bhatta From what to sow to when to reap, farmers need weather forecast at every step. It can make or break them The monsoon forecast in May said India would receive good rains this year, and the onset was predicted for the first week of June. …
T. Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: This July can well be regarded as the hottest July in 40 years, going by the meteorological data recorded in the two observatories
Rapid industrialisation over North India has taken its toll on climate. A study conducted at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, says the northern part of the country has had a more rapid temperature change compared to the southern part. The study takes into account the gradual increase in temperatures …
A weak monsoon looks set to leave northeastern India high and dry. In a striking paradox, the region that boasts the once-wettest Cherrapunji and is nestled among verdant hills faces chronic rain deficiency. Manipur has a deficit of 67 per cent, while Arunachal Pradesh, the least affected, is deficient by …
There have been good crops in years of poor rain Surinder Sud / New Delhi July 28, 2009, 0:04 IST There have been good crops in years of poor rain and huge variations in years which have had similar rain. The prospects of a good crop are often linked to …
Keep aside your worries about a bad monsoon and turn it into a business opportunity instead, like some of these startups in the cloud seeding business did, says Ashish Agashe Every cloud has a silver lining. And Nishant Reddy refuses to draw the line. Here
The Indian Meteorological Department has warned that heavy to very heavy rainfall will be witnessed in southwest Madhya Pradesh, north-central Maharashtra, north Konkan and south Rajasthan in the next 24 hours. At some places, the rainfall can be extremely heavy crossing the 25-cm mark. The Indian Meteorological Department has warned …
Feedbacks involving low-level clouds remain a primary cause of uncertainty in global climate model projections. This issue was addressed by examining changes in low-level clouds over the Northeast Pacific in observations and climate models. Decadal fluctuations were identified in multiple, independent cloud data sets, and changes in cloud cover appeared …
Pune The city on Wednesday saw a lot of wind activity in most places, along with incessant rains. Even as the wind velocity in the city on Tuesday was five nautical miles per hour (knots), it was low on Wednesday but could continue to scale up with the monsoon activity …
HYDERABAD: Cloud-seeding operations could not be undertaken for the third day on Wednesday following a technical snag in the Cessna plane being used for the purpose. On July 20, when Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Minister N. Raghuveera Reddy inaugurated the exercise at the airport, the plane lost radio contact with the …
It plays truant in Punjab, Haryana and parts of Uttar Pradesh ROAD OR RIVER? A street which was submerged after rains lashed Ahmedabad on Wednesday. NEW DELHI: Torrential rain lashed Mumbai and other parts of the western region, flooding streets and causing travel woes, even as the southwest monsoon remained …
MUMBAI: With levels in the lakes that supply water to the city at their lowest, the BMC on Wednesday cleared two proposals to carry out cloud seeding in the catchment areas. The decision was based on rainfall data for this monsoon so far- rain this year was 70% less than …
