India, Nov. 21 -- Intensifying heat and rainfall extremes, melting Himalayan glaciers, more powerful cyclones in the Arabian Sea, and extreme sea-levels - that is what India is heading towards as the century progresses, according to a new peer-reviewed study, authored by a team of climate scientists including current and past Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) authors.

Published in the journal PLOS Climate, the paper provides a critical post-IPCC-AR6 update on the state of India's climate. It does this by synthesising the latest observational data and climate model projections.

The findings underscore the urgent need for tailored, region-specific adaptation strategies to protect vulnerable communities and ecosystems from t...