India Climate

Fisherman work on a boat on March 3, 2023, in Kochi, Kerala state, India. The India Meteorological Department as well as the state of Kerala have increased infrastructure for cyclone warnings since Cyclone Ockhi in 2017, which killed about 245 fishermen out at sea. (AP Photo/Satheesh AS)

Early warning is first defense in India climate disasters

KOCHI, India (AP) — For deep sea fishermen Charlene Lenis, Jerome Beji and their 10-person crew, knowing when a cyclone is approaching can spell the difference between life and death.

T. P. Murukesan rows a canoe stocked with mangrove saplings along a waterbody meant for prawns and pokkali rice off the shore of Vypin Island in Kochi, Kerala state, India, on March 4, 2023. Known locally as Mangrove Man, Murukesan has turned to planting the trees along the shores to counter the impacts of rising waters on his home. (AP Photo/Shawn Sebastian)

‘Mangrove Man’ in India fights to salvage sinking shores

A man stands on the shore of the Arabian Sea near a digger that's part of a construction site for a new sea wall in the Chellanam area of Kochi, Kerala state, India on March 3, 2023. Tens of millions of people in India live along coastlines and thus are exposed to major weather events. (AP Photo)

A cyclone-hit Indian hamlet pins its hopes on a sea wall

Adam Kutty stands on the bank of the Periyar River with smokestacks in the distance in Eloor, Kerala state, India, Friday, March 3, 2023. Many of the petrochemical nearby produce pesticides, rare earth elements, rubber processing chemicals, fertilizers, zinc-chrome products and leather treatments. (AP Photo)

India residents try to save a river, officials deny problems

Rajan, who only uses one name, sits in his home in a forest in the heart of the city in Kochi, southern Kerala state, India, March 3, 2023. For nearly sixty years, Rajan has lived comfortably among the trees, then the surrounding city of Kochi boomed as the state's financial capital and swallowed up once-protected green areas and Rajan's former home. (AP Photo/R S Iyer)

In India, mangrove trees make way for booming city of Kochi

Women wait for their turn to collect water in barrels from a tanker in the Chellanam area of Kochi, Kerala state, India, March 1, 2023. Saltwater's intrusion into freshwater is a growing problem linked to climate change and in Chellanam rising salinity means residents can no longer depend on ponds and wells for the water they need to drink, cook and wash. (Uzmi Athar/Press Trust of India via AP)

On India’s shore, rising salinity means daily water struggle

KOCHI, India (AP) — Anthony Kuttappassera’s family has lived in the same house at the edge of the Arabian Sea for more than a century.