Anasuya Barik

Abstract Climate change is reshaping thermal and hydro-climatological extremes across South Asia, with direct implications for livestock systems. Like other livestock species, these changes can significantly alter the pig production system. This may impact the availability of animal-source foods for human consumption in the future.

Abstract Changes in temperature, precipitation, wind speed, and relative humidity due to climate change are likely to alter future fire regimes. We quantified the impact of such changes on the fire weather of Indian forests using a fire weather index and high-resolution downscaled climate projections. While conventional wisdom contends that future temperature increases will increase fire weather indices, we find this to be true only in dry forests.