Satellite-based data and models show that irrigation has contributed considerably to an increase in moist heat over the Indo-Gangetic Plain during the past four decades 1. Such an increase in moist ...

This image shows a blanket of haze is common in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. The haze piles up along the Himalaya Mountains, forming a strip of white-gray that obscures the ground. The Moderate Resolution ...

A comic begins: Forty percent of India’s 1.4 billion people live in a relatively small stretch of land, The Indo Gangetic Plain. How the region became a cradle of civilization is no accident of ...

Over half of India’s districts, which are home to 76% of the country’s population and contribute to a combined GDP of ₹280 trillion, are currently at ‘high to very high’ heat risk, an analysis by the ...

Tiny air pollution particles commonly called soot, but also known as black carbon, are in the air and on the move throughout our planet. The Indo-Gangetic plain, one of the most fertile and densely ...

Rivers are vital to life in India. They provide the water needed for drinking, daily use, and especially for farming. They have shaped our history, with ancient civilisations growing right on their ...

KOLKATA: Kolkata has emerged as the third cleanest among 17 cities in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) in terms of the presence of PM2.5, a fine particulate matter that is among the most harmful air ...

In the opening scenes of “The Ministry for the Future”, the American novelist Kim Stanley Robinson imagines what happens to a small Indian town hit by a heatwave. Streets empty as normal activity ...

Every January millions of people across India’s Ganges plain find themselves caught in fog – a cloud at ground level. This cloud then mixes with smoke from open fires lit for heating and cooking and ...

Kolkata ranks third cleanest in the Indo-Gangetic Plain for PM2.5 levels in September 2025, with 22 microgram per cubic metre, slightly above WHO limits. Varanasi leads the region, while Ghaziabad is ...