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How Monsoon Timing Decides Whether Indian Frogs Breed That Year

The trigger is not warmth, it is water hitting dry groundThe Indian Bullfrog, Hoplobatrachus tigerinus, can spend months in a state of reduced activity underground, waiting. What ends that wait is not a rise in temperature, the pre-monsoon heat in May is already extreme, but the specific sensory signal of…

Times Life · Oct 15

How climate change is altering Indian monsoon

Research shows that global warming increases the fluctuations in the monsoon, resulting in both long dry periods and short spells of heavy rains

The Hindu · Sep 17, 2022

Is it too late to avoid the worst of the climate crisis?

In what was largely seen as a final warning, the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate report cautioned that it's "now or never" if the world wants to prevent an irreversible climate disaster. As global leaders struggle to make meaningful changes, some of the world's most vulnerable nations…

France 24 · Jun 9, 2022