Changing climate inflicts drought on Tamil Nadu

Within a period of 15 months, Tamil Nadu had to face the 2015 floods, Cyclone Varadah and now the drought. Are these indications of climate change? MORE ...

The queue of trucks at a water filling station is going to grow in the coming months.

Cyclone Vardah tests Chennai's climate resilience

The high intensity Chennai floods of November-December 2015 and the very severe Cyclone Vardah of 12 December 2016 seems to be strengthening the prognosis made in the Tamil Nadu State Action Plan on Climate Change that the state's coast could face climate-related events of increasing intensity. These events tested the Chennai's climate resilience and preparedness, and found them to be inadequate. MORE ...

Falling trees have left a trail of damage in Chennai.