Jammu, Nov. 4 -- As many as 3220 people lost their lives during the last nine months in different parts of the country due to climate change, as the nation is witnessing extreme weather events.
According to the Climate India 2026 report released by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), India was hit by almost one extreme weather event a day in the first nine months of 2026. These not-so-natural disasters killed 3,220 people and around 47,244 livestock; damaged 4.25 million hectare of cropped areas; destroyed public infrastructure worth crores of rupees; and decimated 128,334 houses, crippling the lives of the very poor and pushing them deeper into debt and penury.
"This is the human face of climate change, as documented in Climate...