It may seem as if weather is becoming more extreme with each year. Every summer there are record high temperatures sweeping the nations, extreme droughts and severe thunderstorms. This carries over to ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In a remote cave in northeast India, rainwater has slowly dripped from the ceiling in the same spots for over 1,000 years. With each drop, minerals in the water accumulate on the ...

In ancient Vedic texts, Indra, the king of the gods, battles the vicious monster Vritra who has swallowed all the water in the world and left the people starving without rain for their crops. Armed ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's annual monsoon has covered more than three-fourths of the country and it is set to cover the entire country on time for the planting season despite stalling earlier this ...

MUMBAI, July 7 (Reuters) - Farmers in India have fallen behind in planting key summer-sown crops such as rice, cotton, corn and soybeans due to the uneven distribution of monsoon rainfall, although ...

This is a sketch diagram illustrating the proposed glacial-interglacial Indian summer monsoon (ISM) dynamics. It schematically indicates the responses of the cross-equatorial pressure gradient (XEPG, ...

NEW DELHI, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Ample monsoon rains have accelerated the planting of summer-sown rice in India, according to the latest farm ministry data, after a slow start to the sowing season that ...

Although El Niño suppresses overall monsoon season rainfall across India, a new study finds that it also, counterintuitively, sharply increases the likelihood of extreme daily downpours in the country ...