Impact News India News the incisive way
They found him stranded inside his waterlogged home. Dressed in shorts and slippers and with a few bags by his …
Read More »Patna Drowns As Climate Change Meets Corruption
![Record breaking rainfall exposed the dysfunctional urban planning and corruption in Patna [image by: Prashant Ravi]](https://i1.wp.com/www.impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/patna-waterlogging-08-1020x678-e1570608640235.jpg?resize=310%2C165&ssl=1)
Environment
Trapped Between Melting Glaciers And A Rising Sea: UN
Rapid sea level rise and accelerated melting of glaciers due to global warming will increasingly disrupt lives of more than …
Read More »
As Glaciers Disappear, Can We Be Far Behind?
Due to climate change, mountain glaciers worldwide lost mass at an average rate of 220 gigatons (Gt) per year between …
Read More »
Climate Change Resilience Needs Investment Now
![COP 14 commemorates the 25th year after UNCCD was founded, but many problems remain similar [image: UNCCD]](https://i1.wp.com/www.impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/UNCCD-Plaque-800x800.jpg?resize=310%2C165&ssl=1)
In coastal Odisha, flash floods often devastate the paddy crop, leading to severe distress among farmers, who have to suffer …
Read More »
One Law To Rule India’s Rivers
![Protests in Bangalore over Cauvery water, one of the key interstate water disputes in India [image by: Press Trust of India]](https://i1.wp.com/www.impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Bengaluru_PTI-e1569051017196.jpg?resize=310%2C165&ssl=1)
In possibly the most ambitious change to India’s water governance since the founding of the country in 1947, the central …
Read More »
Save Land To fight Climate Change
![Ibrahim Thiaw, Executive Secretary, UNCCD (left), and COP 14 President, Prakash Javadekar, India’s Environment Minister, at the New Delhi summit [Image by: IISD/ENB]](https://i1.wp.com/www.impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Ibrahim-Thiaw-Executive-Secretary-e1568447661133.jpg?resize=310%2C165&ssl=1)
The biennial summit organized by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and hosted by India said at the …
Read More »
India Promotes South-South Cooperation, But Key Questions Unaddressed
As the second week of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Conference of Parties (COP) kicked off in Delhi, …
Read More »
Hydropower Projects Ruining Lives In The Himalayas
![The Karcham Wangtoo hydropower project site at Kinnaur district, Himachal Pradesh , India [Image by: Wikimedia Commons]](https://i1.wp.com/www.impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Damsite_of_Karcham_Wangtoo_Project_at_Karcham_Kinnaur-1020x680-e1566461114538.jpg?resize=310%2C165&ssl=1)
The floods in Assam and Bihar and the cloudburst in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand have all once again underlined the …
Read More »
Indian States Demand Payment For Ecosystem Services
![A monk and child stare at an approaching storm at Sanga Choling monastery in Sikkim, India. Should states such as these be compensated for protecting the climate? [image by Andrea Kirkby]](https://i1.wp.com/www.impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Monk-and-child-sanga-choling-monastery-Anrea-Kirkby-1020x677-e1564992917461.jpg?resize=310%2C165&ssl=1)
Last weekend, 10 Himalayan states in India voiced a unique demand — payment for the clean water that flows down …
Read More »
With Floods And Droughts, Millions At The Mercy Of The Rains
![A freight train loaded down with water leaves for the Indian city of Chennai [image by: DNA]](https://i2.wp.com/www.impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/water_train_for_Chennai_July_2019-1020x574-e1563439708439.jpg?resize=310%2C165&ssl=1)
Nearly a thousand people have been killed by floods in Nepal, Bihar, West Bengal and Assam in India, and in …
Read More »