As this years summer, with its extended heat waves and record temperatures, warns, how to adapt to a warmer world is no longer a hypothetical question. A new study by World Weather Attribution says climate change has made a 30-day heat wave in South Asia 45 times more likely and 0.85o C hotter. Experts say we need to rethink the kind of houses we live in and offices we construct, how we grow our crops and the way we look at the impact of heat on our bodies, even as we tackle reducing the use of fossil fuels.
Farming in today’s Punjab, despite the stellar productivity in cereal crops, is staring at an impending tragedy. A groundwater crisis is likely to make growing paddy almost impossible, a decade from now. Farmers know this. Is there an alternative?
There is no quick solution to farmers’ problems, but the ongoing protests come at an uneasy time for the government ahead of national elections. The third part of our pre-election data series explains the Centre s report card from the last 10 years
Farmers in parts of the country have had to face an erratic southwest monsoon—excess rain in July followed by a record-dry August. ET travels to three states to gauge the impact on the fields.
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