climate change
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Open Thread: Mother Indus is on Fire
While the commentariat counts babies, the Indus basin sits at 47 to 50°C. Radcliffe drew a paper line. The thermometer does not pause at Wagah.
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Cyclone Ditwah November 2025
Sbarrkum shares expert analysis suggesting Cyclone Ditwah, after two merging low-pressure systems over warm seas, may recur far more often than once in a thousand years as a warming atmosphere…
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Open Thread: Pakistan Floods – Let’s Talk
Open thread on the Punjab floods in Pakistan, where record monsoon rains and overflowing rivers have displaced nearly 300,000 people, with fears of disease and food shortages. Readers are invited…
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West Africa’s bitter chocolate harvest is a sweet deal for farmers in south India
A teaser for a ThePlate.in story on cocoa farmers in Tamil Nadu asking whether they can benefit as global cocoa prices more than triple because of West African crop failures,…
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Some miscellaneous points about Indian Prehistory
Nachiketa’s notes for the Indus episode of the History podcast argue that Harappan urbanisation and integration were a response to climatic stress, as in south Mesopotamia, and discuss the Sarasvati’s…
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Climate change is a development problem
The author argues that climate change in Bangladesh is mainly a development problem: even extreme sea-level scenarios would flood only a small part of the country, and subsistence farming on…
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The Weather, South Asia, and coronavirus
Summarises the idea that absolute humidity affects coronavirus spread, suggesting coastal Karachi and Mumbai are less suited to it than inland Lahore, with air conditioning a possible confound.
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DoubleQuoting Trees, 2001 – 2019, Greta 2019 – 1898
Guest writer Charles Cameron pairs images and quotations, from Sebastião Salgado’s twenty million planted trees and mother-tree science to Tolkien’s Ents and a 1898 Yukon photograph said to resemble Greta…
