Good discussion on city planning with researchers from India, Ghana & Bangladesh, about cycling in countries where it is "not a leisure accessory but the primary means of reaching their destination." www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Based on a paper from Jan, 2026 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Recommend. To understand the endless efforts aimed at improving accuracy in predictions, and monsoonal predictions for India in particular. The monsoon is often called the real finance minister because it drives economic health in the country.
The book is weather and climate science for society
India Meteorological Department has predicted a below-normal monsoon given the development of El Niño conditions. Rainfall is expected to be 92% of the long period average (model error of ± 5%). The forecast will be updated next month when conditions become clearer
www.pib.gov.in/PressRelease...
Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, Co-General coordinator of Progressive International, and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill explore the privatisation of warfare and who stands to profit from the arms trade.
📺️ Watch Al Jazeera's Reframe now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYzq...
Guessing you watched the Netflix documentary series? It is excellent
First time I am seeing something like this. The Wildlife Institute of India has advised against the construction of an international airport because birds pose a risk to flights. It was always the other way round: infrastructure posing a risk to wildlife
www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...
SciComm is too important to be left to clickbait nonsense
Bright red-coloured maps gain a lot of traction during summers. In and of themselves, these maps say little because summers are a thing, as are tropical countries. This time, there are maps marked "close to 40°C" for India. Because the actual numbers do not meet personal scare tactic thresholds?
In the interest of science communication that is both accurate and useful: Heatwaves are defined by temperature anomalies. Only an abnormal 35-40°C is a heatwave. Outdoor/factory workers suffer from heat stress and therefore need support, regardless of whether it is a heatwave or not
He doesn’t forget this. He has no reason to believe it makes any difference as Israel has faced no consequences for committing genocide.
Important.
National GHG inventories call most lands “managed” and thus include huge amounts of CO2 removals from tree growth, resulting in net-negative emissions.
Bookkeeping approach quantifies emissions and removals only directly linked to human activities, resulting in net-positive emissions.
Took three days of sitting in a warm living room to figure out the windows were creating a greenhouse effect with direct sunlight. It's a east-facing house. Not very smart when it comes to applying work things to daily life 😅
Trump threatens to wipe out entire civlisations; Benjamin Netenyahu is actually trying to do it every single day
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Today I learnt Lebanon's national animal is the striped hyena. We have them in India as well. A species that thrives in arid and semi-arid ecosystems like deserts, grasslands and scrublands
Australia, some would argue, got the best of both worlds with the COP31 arrangement: President of Negotiations (i.e. effective control) while Turkey hosts physically, taking a chunk of the heat
After having bid to host COP31, Australia had qualms because hosting entails global attention and scrutiny and it takes diplomatic heft to ensure the conference is not a global failure. Guessing similar reasons here plus the current geopolitical/ energy uncertainty
indianexpress.com/article/indi...
Israel called today's operations in Lebanon ETERNAL DARKNESS and we are still being told that this fascist nation can be reasoned with.
This is just a fact: either Israel is stopped or expect the war to continue and expand. Those are the options.
I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.
Indian government is planning an induction stove subsidy to reduce LPG imports. "State-run Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) is considering introduction of an interest subvention component to make electric cooktops available for economically weaker sections."
www.livemint.com/news/india/g...
People don’t like being bombed, and they don’t like the people bombing them.
On The Climate Brink, I am posting draft chapters from my climate risk textbook. This post is the chapter that explains what "climate risk" means.
"For decades this was the natural home for Indian power and diplomacy – through the Non-Aligned Movement, the Group of 77 at the United Nations, through SAARC."
Under Modi, it has rejected all that to sit at the Big Boys table, and gained nothing, lost much.
thewire.in/diplomacy/in...
One of the biggest observable failures during the war on Iran has been Indian diplomacy.
For a country marketing itself as "The Voice of the Global South, India has done nothing excepts what the US allows, like buying Venezuelan oil or attending a UK-led confab.
thewire.in/diplomacy/in...
In that post as well, there was no mention of authoritarians in Israel
More surprising were the climate folk who lapped up his theory. At least the other place still makes sense
Back when Indian foreign policy recognised apartheid, ethnic cleansing and occupation
A pattern of illegal acts and disregard for human life that should trigger global sanctions & boycotts.
Israel: genocide in Gaza, apartheid & illegal occuaption across Palestine; torture prisons now incl death penalty
US: Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, domestic immigration terror, systemic corruption
