Madhavan Nair Rajeevan’s new book tracks shifts over 50 years, explores models we need to build. ‘We must find ways to track it; there’s simply too much at stake,’ he says.

Blogger Pradeep John attributed the extended monsoon to the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), a slow-moving tropical disturbance over Africa, the Indian Ocean, and parts of the Indian subcontinent.

The ministry was created by reorganising the department of ocean development through a ... Set up in 1875 (mainly to understand the Indian monsoon) and headed by the Britishers until India ...