Disha Shetty


Environment

Disha's work on the environment spans investigations, podcasts, video stories, and short news pieces. She has reported on climate change with a focus on the local communities and at the intersection of health and climate change.

More Floods, Storms, Erratic Rains: India's Future, As Planet Warms

New York: About 560 million people along India’s 7,500-km long coastline are at risk of inundation. More floods are likely along the Ganga and Brahmaputra. The monsoon will become more uncertain. Stronger cyclones may strike the western coast. These are some of the predictions made for India by experts interpreting the findings of the latest climate-change report, released on September 25, 2019, by the Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC), the United Nations (UN) body that assesses