Bibek Bhattacharya

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Climate change is melting glaciers, disrupting snowfall patterns and causing deadly cloudbursts and floods all across the Himalaya. As seasons break down and conditions become unpredictable, is Himalayan trekking and mountaineering becoming more dangerous?

In this edition of Mint's climate newsletter, we reveal why India's summer heatwaves are becoming more intense, why climate change is a global health emergency and how India's labour force suffers due to extreme heat

Bibek Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

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Stephen Alter's new book ‘The Fragrance of Rain’ takes the reader on a cultural and nature voyage into the heart of the romance of the monsoon

New Delhi, June 14 -- In these perilous times of climate change, the monsoon is synonymous with suffering.

In this edition, we discuss the dangerous levels of humid heat threatening players at the World Cup, Europe's devastating heatwave, and how extreme climate impacts are affecting Indian children

In this edition, we discuss how people living in 107 Indian cities are suffering from sleep loss due to rising nighttime heat

A combination of intense monsoon rainfall and increasing glacier melt in the Himalaya has turned the flooding of the Brahmaputra in Assam into an annual disaster. But deforestation and unplanned economic development are making things worse