Manipadma Jena writes on a range of climate change issues in Asia as a freelance contributor to the Thomson Reuters Foundation. She has covered international climate-related conferences in Islamabad, Chgwon, Yousu, Bangkok, Inner Mongolia and Hyderabad, and won the 2012 best media reporting award at the 2nd Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum in Bangkok.
"This extreme heat we now see is no less than a sly thief," said Murali Sahoo, a building painter in eastern India, as he washed his buckets and brushes at the end of another sweltering w...
When her husband died seven years ago, leaving her to fend for herself, 37-year-old Kuni Majhi survived hunger, illness, drunk men hammering at the flimsy tin door of her thatched hut - a...
From stopping work at brick kilns on very hot days to issuing five-day advance warning of heat waves, the Indian state of Odisha is readying a pioneering action plan to prepare for increa...
