How Arctic ice melt is linked to India’s floods
In the Himadri scientists’ measurements of Arctic sea ice lies the key to predicting India’s floods.
THE sight of flooded fields in Punjab has become a grimly familiar image. But the roots of this year's devastation may lie thousands of kilometres away, in the icy reaches of the Arctic, where India maintains a vital research station. Since 2008, the modest base called Himadri has operated at Ny-Ålesund in Norway's Svalbard archipelago.