India Archives - Climate Attribution

Revealed: The 1,200 Big Methane Leaks from Waste Dumps Trashing the Planet

Published:February 2024

Author(s):Damian Carrington, Seán Clarke

Publisher:The Guardian

This investigative reporting project from The Guardian used satellite image analysis from the company Kayrros, documented a total of 1,256 methane "super-emitter" events between January 2019 and June 2023, linked to large landfills across the globe.Read More →

Climate change strongly affects future fire weather danger in Indian forests

Published:December 2023

Author(s):Anasuya Barik, Somnath Baidya Roy

Publisher:Nature Communications Earth & Environment

This peer-reviewed study quantifies the impact of such changes on the fire weather of Indian forests and finds that fire risk increases in dry climate forests but may be reduced in humid forests, suggesting the importance of regional mitigation.Read More →

Warming temperatures exacerbate groundwater depletion rates in India

Published:September 2023

Author(s):Nishan Bhattarai, David B. Lobell, Balwinder-Singh, Ram Fishman, William P. Kustas, Yadu Pokhrel, Meha Jain

Publisher:Science Advances

This peer-reviewed study finds that farmers in India have adapted to warming temperatures by drawing down groundwater reservoirs, and that regional groundwater loss from 2041-2080 could be three times current depletion rates.Read More →

Fewer, but More Intense, Future Tropical Storms Over the Ganges and Mekong Basins

Published:August 2023

Author(s):Haider Ali, Hayley J. Fowler, Benoit Vanniere, Malcolm J. Roberts

Publisher:Geophysical Research Letters

This peer-reviewed study uses high-resolution tropical storm models to assess the impact of climate change on tropical storm activity in southeast Asia, and finds a decline in tropical storm frequency, but increase in strength and energy.Read More →

Attribution of the 2015 drought in Marathwada, India from a multivariate perspective

Published:March 2023

Author(s):Mariam Zachariah, Savitri Kumari, Arpita Mondal, Karsten Haustein, Friederike E.L. Otto

Publisher:Weather and Climate Extremes

This peer-reviewed study uses observations and large ensembles of regional climate model simulations to understand and attribute a devastating drought in Marathwada, India in 2015 that caused crop losses and deaths. Read More →

Black carbon aerosols over Indian Ocean have unique source fingerprint and optical characteristics during monsoon season

Published:February 2023

Author(s):Krishnakant Budhavant, August Andersson, H. Holmstrand, Örjan Gustafsson

Publisher:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

This peer-reviewed study examines black carbon aerosols over the Indian ocean during the less-studied monsoon season, finding that savanna-burning fires from Africa periodically account for half of BC loadings over the Indian Ocean.Read More →

Impact of Climate Change on Productivity of Food Crops: A Sub-National Level Assessment for India

Published:September 2022

Author(s):C A Rama Rao, B M K Raju, Samuel Josily, A V M S Rao, R Nagarjuna Kumar, M Srinivasa Rao, N Swapna, G Samba Siva, Y L Meghana, M Prabhakar, V K Singh

Publisher:Environmental Research Communications

Impact assessment of climate change on food crops in India. Study projects that crop yields will decrease across most of India over the 21st century due to climate change.Read More →

Climate Change made devastating early heat in India and Pakistan 30 times more likely

Published:May 2022

Author(s):Mariam Zachariah, Arulalan T, Krishna AchutaRao, Fahad Saeed, Roshan Jha, Manish Kumar Dhasmana, Arpita Mondal, Remy Bonnet, Robert Vautard, Sjoukje Philip, Sarah Kew, Maja Vahlberg, Roop Singh, Julie Arrighi, Dorothy Heinrich, Lisa Thalheimer, Carolina Pereira Marghidan, Aditi Kapoor, Maarten van Aalst, Emmanuel Raju, Sihan Li, Jingru Sun, Gabriel Vecchi, Wenchang Yang, Mathias Hauser, Dominik L. Schumacher, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Luke J. Harrington, Friederike E. L. Otto

Publisher:World Weather Attribution

This study finds that the probability of the 2022 heat wave in India and Pakistan was made 30 times more likely due to climate change.Read More →

The heatwave in North India and Pakistan in April-May 2022

Published:May 2022

Author(s):Nikolaos Christidis

Publisher:Met Office

This study finds that the chances of a record-breaking heatwave in north-west India and Pakistan has been made over 100 times more likely because of climate change.Read More →

The Production Gap: Governments’ planned fossil fuel production remains dangerously out of sync with Paris Agreement limits

Published:October 2021

Author(s):Stockholm Environment Institute, UN Environmental Program, International Institute for Sustainable Development, ODI, E3G

Publisher:Stockholm Environment Institute, UN Environmental Program, International Institute for Sustainable Development, ODI, E3G

This report tracks the discrepancy between governments’ planned fossil fuel production and global levels consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C or 2°C.Read More →