Meena Menon

1 week ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Meena Menon |Ilangovan Rajasekaran |Vaishna Roy

On a blistering Sunday afternoon in Delhi, Rohit Rajput, a former CEO, found himself in a room for a meeting he had read about on social media. There were glasses of water and little chits where you had to write your name and bring them back the next time, if you cared to return. “We were encouraged to use public transport, and from the moment I walked into that room, I realised this is not just another climate conference,” said Rohit.

3 weeks ago | india.mongabay.com | Meena Menon

A research team is drilling boreholes in Mount Everest’s Western Cwm to measure glacier temperatures and understand why Himalayan glaciers are warming and melting faster than expected. Data from the glacier could transform predictions of glacial retreat and future water supply across the Himalayan region.

1 month ago | scroll.in | Meena Menon

A landmark case which seeks to establish that polluters can be held liable for transboundary harm completed its hearing in a German court on March 19. The case against RWE, Germany’s largest energy provider, was filed by Saul Luciano Lliuya, a 41-year-old Peruvian farmer and mountain guide based in Huaraz. Lliuya has witnessed glaciers retreating in his home in the high mountains.

1 month ago | scroll.in | Meena Menon

In August, 2024, several homes in Thame village in Nepal’s Namche region were swept away in a flood caused by a glacial lake bursting its banks. An estimated were displaced. As global temperatures rise with climate change, there is increasing danger of more such glacial lake outburst floods, warned scientists at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development who monitored the Thyangbo lake using satellite imagery.

2 months ago | linkedin.com | Meena Menon

Meena Menon Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, LAHRI UK, PhD, University of Leeds, Ex Bureau chief, The Hindu,, author : Riots and After in Mumbai, Reporting Pakistan, A Frayed History, The Journey of Cotton in India 10m Report this post a year since Satish and Sujata passed away. Sharing Anjali Ambekar' s evocative memoir to her husband 1 Like Comment