Aniruddha Ghosal

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Reporter with The Associated Press

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A family works in a field near a wind turbine, part of an Adani Group project, near Sadla village in Surendranagar district of Gujarat state, India, Monday, March 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

What Adani's woes mean for India's clean energy transition

When the bidders for India's multibillion-dollar incentive to make solar components were announced in early March, the absence of corporate behemoth Adani Group was conspicuous.

News, Politics | March 28th 2023

People walk through flood waters in Sunamganj, Bangladesh, on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Climate change a factor in heavy rains causing unprecedented South Asia floods

Scientists say climate change is a factor behind the erratic and early rains that triggered unprecedented floods in Bangladesh and northeastern India, killing dozens and making lives miserable for millions of others.

News | June 22nd 2022

A flood affected family waits for the help at marooned Tarabari village, west of Gauhati, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Monday, June 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Floods leave dozens dead, thousands homeless in Bangladesh, India

Villagers in northeastern Bangladesh crowded makeshift refugee centers and scrambled to meet boats arriving with food and fresh water as massive floods, which have killed dozens of people and displaced hundreds of thousands there and in neighboring India, continued to wreak havoc on Tuesday, June 21, 2022.

News | June 21st 2022

A woman covers her face with a scarf to protect from heat wave rides through a dust storm in Ahmedabad, India, on Saturday, May 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

South Asia's heat portends the future of climate change

The devastating heat wave that has baked India and Pakistan in recent months was made more likely by climate change and is a glimpse of the region’s future, international scientists said in a study released on Monday, May 23, 2022.

News | May 24th 2022

A thermal power station of Torrent Power Limited is seen behind as a man fishes in river Sabarmati in Ahmedabad, India, on Monday, May 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

India's heat wave causes blackouts and coal for power is running low

An unusually early and brutal heat wave is scorching parts of India, with acute power shortages affecting millions as demand for electricity surges to record levels.

News | May 3rd 2022

A woman harvests wheat on the outskirts of Jammu, India, on Thursday, April 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

India's record-shattering heat wave will harm food production

An unusually early, record−shattering heat wave in India has reduced wheat yields, raising questions about how the country will balance its domestic needs with ambitions to increase exports and make up for shortfalls due to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

News | April 29th 2022

A roadside food stall worker uses coal hearth to make roti or Indian bread in Dhanbad, an eastern Indian city in Jharkhand state, on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021. File photo by The Associated Press/Altaf Qadri

Will the world's climate target stand in the way of India's development?

India faces a difficult choice that will have consequences for the world.

Race Against Climate Change

News, Politics | November 12th 2021

China's Special Envoy for Climate Change Xie Zhenhua takes a question at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, in Glasgow, Scotland, on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. Photo by The Associated Press/Alastair Grant

China and U.S. promise greater climate co-operation at COP26 talks

The world's top two carbon polluters, China and the United States, pledged on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, to increase their cooperation on climate action in a joint declaration issued at U.N. climate talks in Glasgow.

Race Against Climate Change

News, Politics | November 11th 2021

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, prepares for a group photo inside the venue of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)

Climate talks president says there is little time left to reach a deal

The United Nations climate summit in Glasgow has made “some serious toddler steps” toward cutting emissions but far from the giant leaps needed to limit global warming to internationally accepted goals, two new analyses and top officials said on Tuesday, November 9, 2021.

Race Against Climate Change

News, Politics | November 10th 2021

Former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. Photo by The Associated Press/Alberto Pezzali

Obama blames Russia and China for lagging on climate policy

Barack Obama expressed confidence at U.N. climate talks Monday that the Biden administration will ultimately get its $555 billion climate package through Congress, and faulted U.S. rivals China and Russia for what he called a “dangerous lack of urgency” in cutting their own climate-wrecking emissions.

Race Against Climate Change

News, Politics | November 8th 2021