Aakash Chugh
@chughaakash.bsky.social
Product Operations & Strategist | Climate Tech Writer
Portfolio: https://www.chughaakash.com
Substack: https://chughaakash.substack.com
Portfolio: https://www.chughaakash.com
Substack: https://chughaakash.substack.com
Reposted by Aakash Chugh
❄️ "Snow droughts" are increasing in the Himalayas ❄️
Scientists warn that they could have far-reaching impacts on both people & nature
Satellites reveal their frequent occurrence btw 3,000 and 6,000 meters across 11 major river basins in the Hindu Kush Himalayas & a decline in snow cover days:
Scientists warn that they could have far-reaching impacts on both people & nature
Satellites reveal their frequent occurrence btw 3,000 and 6,000 meters across 11 major river basins in the Hindu Kush Himalayas & a decline in snow cover days:
Snow droughts intensify across the Hindu Kush Himalayas
A new study finds the frequent occurrence of snow droughts and their hotspots across 11 major river basins in the Hindu Kush Himalayas.
india.mongabay.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
❄️ "Snow droughts" are increasing in the Himalayas ❄️
Scientists warn that they could have far-reaching impacts on both people & nature
Satellites reveal their frequent occurrence btw 3,000 and 6,000 meters across 11 major river basins in the Hindu Kush Himalayas & a decline in snow cover days:
Scientists warn that they could have far-reaching impacts on both people & nature
Satellites reveal their frequent occurrence btw 3,000 and 6,000 meters across 11 major river basins in the Hindu Kush Himalayas & a decline in snow cover days:
A Sunday in Autumn
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
A Sunday in Autumn
Reposted by Aakash Chugh
If CO2 emissions go to zero in 2050 (top), the sinks (green) will bring atmospheric CO2 back down (middle), & temperature will stabalise at ~1.7°C (bottom).
Going to zero today will keep us <1.5°C
Constant emissions leads to 2.6°C, rising rapidly thereafter.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Going to zero today will keep us <1.5°C
Constant emissions leads to 2.6°C, rising rapidly thereafter.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM
If CO2 emissions go to zero in 2050 (top), the sinks (green) will bring atmospheric CO2 back down (middle), & temperature will stabalise at ~1.7°C (bottom).
Going to zero today will keep us <1.5°C
Constant emissions leads to 2.6°C, rising rapidly thereafter.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Going to zero today will keep us <1.5°C
Constant emissions leads to 2.6°C, rising rapidly thereafter.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Came across this quote while reading “On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life” by Ben Hutchinson:
“Life may be accidental, but living should not be; without some sense of direction drawing us over the horizon, we are just drifting aimlessly across the desert of life.”…
“Life may be accidental, but living should not be; without some sense of direction drawing us over the horizon, we are just drifting aimlessly across the desert of life.”…
August 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Came across this quote while reading “On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life” by Ben Hutchinson:
“Life may be accidental, but living should not be; without some sense of direction drawing us over the horizon, we are just drifting aimlessly across the desert of life.”…
“Life may be accidental, but living should not be; without some sense of direction drawing us over the horizon, we are just drifting aimlessly across the desert of life.”…
I decided to get back into reading - I found I’d been focused on reading online articles and wasn’t finding time to read books.
Here are the books I’m reading currently, with the last two borrowed from my local library.
1. Butter by Asako Yuzuki
2. It’s Complicated by Philippa Found
Here are the books I’m reading currently, with the last two borrowed from my local library.
1. Butter by Asako Yuzuki
2. It’s Complicated by Philippa Found
August 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I decided to get back into reading - I found I’d been focused on reading online articles and wasn’t finding time to read books.
Here are the books I’m reading currently, with the last two borrowed from my local library.
1. Butter by Asako Yuzuki
2. It’s Complicated by Philippa Found
Here are the books I’m reading currently, with the last two borrowed from my local library.
1. Butter by Asako Yuzuki
2. It’s Complicated by Philippa Found
How Tokyo, Delhi & Jakarta are adapting to climate change
• Tokyo: High-tech solutions ($2B/year)
• Delhi: Community cooling (32M people, 45°C heat)
• Jakarta: Capital relocation (sinking 25cm/year)
Three models, three different futures for Asian megacities.
open.substack.com/pub/chughaak...
• Tokyo: High-tech solutions ($2B/year)
• Delhi: Community cooling (32M people, 45°C heat)
• Jakarta: Capital relocation (sinking 25cm/year)
Three models, three different futures for Asian megacities.
open.substack.com/pub/chughaak...
Three Cities, Three Climate Futures: Lessons from Asia's Frontlines
From Tokyo to Delhi to Jakarta, the Asian cities demonstrate that effective climate adaptation isn't simply about having money.
open.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
How Tokyo, Delhi & Jakarta are adapting to climate change
• Tokyo: High-tech solutions ($2B/year)
• Delhi: Community cooling (32M people, 45°C heat)
• Jakarta: Capital relocation (sinking 25cm/year)
Three models, three different futures for Asian megacities.
open.substack.com/pub/chughaak...
• Tokyo: High-tech solutions ($2B/year)
• Delhi: Community cooling (32M people, 45°C heat)
• Jakarta: Capital relocation (sinking 25cm/year)
Three models, three different futures for Asian megacities.
open.substack.com/pub/chughaak...
How do you save a sinking megacity?
Build a $40B bird-shaped seawall. Engineer the weather. Relocate your capital. Pioneer Islamic green finance.
Jakarta's climate response is the most ambitious—and desperate—ever attempted.
But can technology outpace geological time?
Read:
Build a $40B bird-shaped seawall. Engineer the weather. Relocate your capital. Pioneer Islamic green finance.
Jakarta's climate response is the most ambitious—and desperate—ever attempted.
But can technology outpace geological time?
Read:
Cities on the Edge: Jakarta Part 2
Engineering the Impossible: How Jakarta Fights Back Against Rising Seas and Sinking Land
chughaakash.substack.com
July 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
How do you save a sinking megacity?
Build a $40B bird-shaped seawall. Engineer the weather. Relocate your capital. Pioneer Islamic green finance.
Jakarta's climate response is the most ambitious—and desperate—ever attempted.
But can technology outpace geological time?
Read:
Build a $40B bird-shaped seawall. Engineer the weather. Relocate your capital. Pioneer Islamic green finance.
Jakarta's climate response is the most ambitious—and desperate—ever attempted.
But can technology outpace geological time?
Read:
Reposted by Aakash Chugh
Happy Pythagore day 24/7/25. (works in the US too).
The next will be 24/10/26 and that's it for this century.
The next will be 24/10/26 and that's it for this century.
July 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Happy Pythagore day 24/7/25. (works in the US too).
The next will be 24/10/26 and that's it for this century.
The next will be 24/10/26 and that's it for this century.
Reposted by Aakash Chugh
2024 was the hottest year on this planet in over 125 THOUSAND YEARS.
2025 is on track to be the second hottest.
1976. WAS. NOT. HOTTER.
2025 is on track to be the second hottest.
1976. WAS. NOT. HOTTER.
June 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM
2024 was the hottest year on this planet in over 125 THOUSAND YEARS.
2025 is on track to be the second hottest.
1976. WAS. NOT. HOTTER.
2025 is on track to be the second hottest.
1976. WAS. NOT. HOTTER.
Reposted by Aakash Chugh
New Research | Urban planning is an often overlooked element of reducing Canada’s emissions.
Yet designing sustainable communities can reduce energy use, reduce emissions, create significant cost-saving for cities, & improve quality of life.
Full story:
www.iisd.org/publications...
Yet designing sustainable communities can reduce energy use, reduce emissions, create significant cost-saving for cities, & improve quality of life.
Full story:
www.iisd.org/publications...
June 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
New Research | Urban planning is an often overlooked element of reducing Canada’s emissions.
Yet designing sustainable communities can reduce energy use, reduce emissions, create significant cost-saving for cities, & improve quality of life.
Full story:
www.iisd.org/publications...
Yet designing sustainable communities can reduce energy use, reduce emissions, create significant cost-saving for cities, & improve quality of life.
Full story:
www.iisd.org/publications...
Reposted by Aakash Chugh
There it is. The first ever Heat Advisory issued in Alaska. This is the first year it has been an option. @alaskawx.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
There it is. The first ever Heat Advisory issued in Alaska. This is the first year it has been an option. @alaskawx.bsky.social
Jakarta's children wade to school through permanently flooded streets. The world's fastest sinking city faces an impossible choice: adapt or abandon. New piece on how 32M people live in a metropolitan area that is disappearing beneath their feet. 🌊
Read more: tinyurl.com/567dfchc
#ClimateChange
Read more: tinyurl.com/567dfchc
#ClimateChange
Cities on the Edge: Jakarta Part 1
The world’s fastest-sinking megacity faces an existential crisis, with land subsidence, rising seas, and relentless flooding putting millions at risk and overwhelming the city’s aging infrastructure.
open.substack.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Jakarta's children wade to school through permanently flooded streets. The world's fastest sinking city faces an impossible choice: adapt or abandon. New piece on how 32M people live in a metropolitan area that is disappearing beneath their feet. 🌊
Read more: tinyurl.com/567dfchc
#ClimateChange
Read more: tinyurl.com/567dfchc
#ClimateChange
📍NEW: "Cities on the Edge: Delhi Part 2"
From cool roofs cooling slums for pennies to 400 electric buses deployed this May, Delhi shows climate resilience isn't about massive engineering projects but innovative solutions with limited resources.
From cool roofs cooling slums for pennies to 400 electric buses deployed this May, Delhi shows climate resilience isn't about massive engineering projects but innovative solutions with limited resources.
Cities on the Edge: Delhi Part 2
As Delhi's air turns toxic and its water supplies dwindle, India's capital confronts climate challenges with remarkable ingenuity and determination.
open.substack.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
📍NEW: "Cities on the Edge: Delhi Part 2"
From cool roofs cooling slums for pennies to 400 electric buses deployed this May, Delhi shows climate resilience isn't about massive engineering projects but innovative solutions with limited resources.
From cool roofs cooling slums for pennies to 400 electric buses deployed this May, Delhi shows climate resilience isn't about massive engineering projects but innovative solutions with limited resources.
Reposted by Aakash Chugh
The Republic of Congo has one of the lowest deforestation rates in the world, but “uncontrolled gold mining” in recent years could harm the country’s biodiversity, especially in the Sangha region, Mongabay’s Elodie Toto reported in a video published in February.
Republic of Congo’s gold mining boom undermines conservation efforts
The Republic of Congo has one of the lowest deforestation rates in the world, but “uncontrolled gold mining” in recent years could harm the country’s biodiversity, especially in the Sangha region,…
news.mongabay.com
May 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The Republic of Congo has one of the lowest deforestation rates in the world, but “uncontrolled gold mining” in recent years could harm the country’s biodiversity, especially in the Sangha region, Mongabay’s Elodie Toto reported in a video published in February.
📍NEW: "Cities on the Edge: Delhi Part 1"
A city where AQI hits 450, temps reach 47°C, and climate meets poverty head-on. Unlike Tokyo's engineering solutions, Delhi innovates with fewer resources—yet finds remarkable paths forward.
#ClimateResilience
Read here:
open.substack.com/pub/chughaak...
A city where AQI hits 450, temps reach 47°C, and climate meets poverty head-on. Unlike Tokyo's engineering solutions, Delhi innovates with fewer resources—yet finds remarkable paths forward.
#ClimateResilience
Read here:
open.substack.com/pub/chughaak...
May 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
📍NEW: "Cities on the Edge: Delhi Part 1"
A city where AQI hits 450, temps reach 47°C, and climate meets poverty head-on. Unlike Tokyo's engineering solutions, Delhi innovates with fewer resources—yet finds remarkable paths forward.
#ClimateResilience
Read here:
open.substack.com/pub/chughaak...
A city where AQI hits 450, temps reach 47°C, and climate meets poverty head-on. Unlike Tokyo's engineering solutions, Delhi innovates with fewer resources—yet finds remarkable paths forward.
#ClimateResilience
Read here:
open.substack.com/pub/chughaak...
'Normal People' isn't just a love story—it's about the spaces between us that both connect and separate. Dive into how Rooney captures our universal struggle to be truly seen in a world of unspoken words and invisible barriers.
Link: open.substack.com/pub/themargi...
Link: open.substack.com/pub/themargi...
May 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
'Normal People' isn't just a love story—it's about the spaces between us that both connect and separate. Dive into how Rooney captures our universal struggle to be truly seen in a world of unspoken words and invisible barriers.
Link: open.substack.com/pub/themargi...
Link: open.substack.com/pub/themargi...
Just published Part 2 of Tokyo's climate story!
From massive underground flood tunnels to AI-powered grids, Tokyo shows how cities can adapt to climate change through engineering, finance, and social innovation.
Read the full article: open.substack.com/pub/chughaak...
From massive underground flood tunnels to AI-powered grids, Tokyo shows how cities can adapt to climate change through engineering, finance, and social innovation.
Read the full article: open.substack.com/pub/chughaak...
Cities on the Edge: Tokyo Part 2
As Tokyo swelters and Mount Fuji stands bare, Japan confronts its climate future.
open.substack.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Just published Part 2 of Tokyo's climate story!
From massive underground flood tunnels to AI-powered grids, Tokyo shows how cities can adapt to climate change through engineering, finance, and social innovation.
Read the full article: open.substack.com/pub/chughaak...
From massive underground flood tunnels to AI-powered grids, Tokyo shows how cities can adapt to climate change through engineering, finance, and social innovation.
Read the full article: open.substack.com/pub/chughaak...
Reposted by Aakash Chugh
Central Asia suffers ‘bonkers’ heatwave fuelled by climate change
- Temperatures rise to 10C above pre-industrial levels
Analysis by @wwattribution.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/164a...
- Temperatures rise to 10C above pre-industrial levels
Analysis by @wwattribution.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/164a...
Central Asia suffers ‘bonkers’ heatwave fuelled by climate change
Temperatures rise to 10C above pre-industrial levels
www.ft.com
April 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Central Asia suffers ‘bonkers’ heatwave fuelled by climate change
- Temperatures rise to 10C above pre-industrial levels
Analysis by @wwattribution.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/164a...
- Temperatures rise to 10C above pre-industrial levels
Analysis by @wwattribution.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/164a...
Reposted by Aakash Chugh
The transition to clean energy in power generation is largely being driven by economics and the economic advantages just keep piling up on the clean side.
Let's have a little look at how much different forms of power cost.
Solar - super low cost (and this includes transmission/storage).
Wind - low cost.
Gas - high cost! The highest cost form of energy we have today.
More gas power means higher bills for households and business.
Solar - super low cost (and this includes transmission/storage).
Wind - low cost.
Gas - high cost! The highest cost form of energy we have today.
More gas power means higher bills for households and business.
March 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The transition to clean energy in power generation is largely being driven by economics and the economic advantages just keep piling up on the clean side.
Reposted by Aakash Chugh
Even moderate CO2 emissions could lead to 7°C of warming by 2200 | New Scientist
Even moderate CO2 emissions could lead to 7°C of warming by 2200
There's a small chance of very high warming even with moderate future emissions, according to a computer model exploring what could happen in the next thousand years
buff.ly
March 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Even moderate CO2 emissions could lead to 7°C of warming by 2200 | New Scientist