India-Pakistan conflict over water reflects a region increasingly vulnerable to climate change

Water treaties should be rewritten to factor in climate change and new geopolitical realities.

Mehebub Sahana, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Geography, University of Manchester • conversation
May 9, 2025 • ~8 min

How can India decarbonize its coal-dependent electric power system?

A detailed MIT analysis identifies some promising options but also raises unexpected concerns.

Nancy W. Stauffer | MIT Energy Initiative • mit
May 6, 2025 • ~16 min

India and Pakistan tension escalates with suspension of historic water treaty

The suspension of a 1960 treaty between India and Pakistan has huge ramifications.

Kate Sullivan de Estrada, Associate Professor in the International Relations of South Asia, University of Oxford • conversation
April 25, 2025 • ~8 min

Tensions over Kashmir and a warming planet have placed the Indus Waters Treaty on life support

India has said it would suspend crucial treaty governing river flows in disputed Kashmir. Pakistan has said any disruption to water supply would be ‘an act of war.’

Fazlul Haq, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University • conversation
April 25, 2025 • ~13 min

Make Indian Sign Language official language and open more schools for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, study advises

Around one in five (over 19%) of India’s deaf and hard-of-hearing children were out-of-school in 2014, according to a survey conducted for the Indian

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 17, 2025 • ~6 min

Delhi: how weather patterns and faraway mountains made this the world’s most polluted megacity

Don’t just blame the city’s cars, factories and building sites. Mountains and weather patterns make it particularly hard for pollution to escape.

Laura Wilcox, Associate Professor, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading • conversation
Feb. 28, 2025 • ~8 min

Study in India shows kids use different math skills at work vs. school

Students can excel at mental math in marketplace jobs but struggle with formal math in the classroom, and vice versa.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News • mit
Feb. 5, 2025 • ~9 min

Central India’s indigenous forests are falling victim to bullets and bulldozers

Forests in India’s tribal heartland are being caught in the crossfire of conflict.

Bulbul Prakash, PhD Candidate in Politics, University of Manchester • conversation
Jan. 30, 2025 • ~7 min

As the US and China race to the Moon, these loopholes in space law could cause conflict

Nations will need to tread carefully on the Moon in order to avoid conflict.

Gbenga Oduntan, Professor of Law, University of Bradford • conversation
Jan. 3, 2025 • ~8 min

Delhi’s annual air pollution has become a human-made calamity

The world’s second largest city is one of its most polluted.

Sigamani Panneer, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University • conversation
Dec. 4, 2024 • ~5 min

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