India’s year in climate | 10 Headlines of 2025

If you care (or worry) about climate change - what’s been happening how it may impact you - and wish you were more informed about it, try this - my pick of 2025’s top climate headlines.

  1. More than 1100 dead Olive Ridley turtles washed up along India’s eastern coast in Jan
  2. Climate change made Bangalore’s filter coffee more expensive
  3. Purnima Devi Barman named in TIME’s 2025 Women of the Year list for her efforts in conservation of teh greater adjutant stork
  4. Dry winter followed by late and heavy snowfall - A recipe for disaster in the Himalayas!
  5. Citizen action has saved a forest in the middle of Hyderabad, at least for now.
  6. Ahmedabad using parametric heat insurance to safeguard informal workers from heat
  7. Monsoon became the season of devastating floods across India - UK, Punjab, Gurgaon, Kolkata, Manipur, Marathwada and so so many more
  8. India marks a milestone - more than 50% electricity generation from renewables sources
  9. Supreme court reverses its judgement that barred Ex‑Post Facto Environmental Clearances
  10. ‘I just want to breathe’: Rare protests over air pollution in New Delhi

I wrote a short piece that summarises the 10 stories in a <10 minute read.

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