Abhishek Jha is a data journalist. He analyses public data for finding news, with a focus on the environment, Indian politics and economy, and Covid-19.
Articles by Abhishek Jha
Number Theory: Five datasets show 1.5°C breach in 2024
All these datasets except one show that 2024 was warmer than the pre-industrial baseline by more than 1.5°C.
Updated on Jan 11, 2025 10:48 AM IST
Weather Bee | 2024 warming is 1.6°C in ERA5 data
The daily ERA5 data also shows that 2024 has had 274 days when warming relative to the pre-industrial average was at least 1.50°C
Updated on Jan 10, 2025 01:37 PM IST
Number Theory: As 2025 begins, a look at India’s demographics
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Updated on Jan 01, 2025 09:13 AM IST
Number Theory: Sea surface mercury set for record highs
This is the last of a two-part data journalism series which explains why 2024 is the warmest year for the planet.
Updated on Dec 30, 2024 08:48 AM IST
Average Indian’s monthly spend rises, shows survey
The National Statistics Office’s Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) showed poorer classes increased spending at a faster rate while expenditure by the richest declined even in nominal terms, leading to reduced consumption inequality.
Updated on Dec 28, 2024 07:38 AM IST
Abhishek Jha, New Delhi
Number Theory: Big public donations are just a fraction of political funding
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Updated on Dec 27, 2024 10:56 AM IST
Number Theory: 2024 — The year Earth breached the 1.5°C threshold
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Published on Dec 25, 2024 08:37 AM IST
Number Theory: How has India done in ensuring social and economic justice?
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Updated on Dec 23, 2024 10:44 AM IST
Weather Bee: Third consecutive year of record low snow pack in December
The impact of deficit precipitation is that the snow pack in India’s hilly regions in the north has reached a new low for this part of December.
Published on Dec 20, 2024 05:35 PM IST
Weather Bee: December rain a big reason for turnaround in northeast monsoon
A big reason for the surplus rain in the season is the surplus recorded in December because of Cyclone Fengal
Published on Dec 14, 2024 08:52 PM IST
Delhi mercury below 5°C in earliest dip since 1987
Delhi's Safdarjung observatory recorded a minimum temperature of 4.9°C, marking the earliest cold wave day since 1987, with more cold expected.
Updated on Dec 12, 2024 04:29 AM IST
Number Theory: Why November went from being abnormally hot to abnormally cold
The average maximum temperature for India for the month (up to November 28) was 28.90°C, only 0.14°C warmer than the 1981-2010 average for this period.
Updated on Dec 02, 2024 09:45 AM IST
Number Theory: What explains BJP’s massive victory in Maharashtra?
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Published on Nov 28, 2024 09:46 AM IST
Number Theory: How Congress lost the plot and slumped to its lowest Maha tally
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Published on Nov 26, 2024 09:52 AM IST
Number Theory: Three charts which explain the election results
What explains these results? Here are three charts that give an idea.
Published on Nov 24, 2024 03:28 PM IST
The rise and rise of BJP in Maharashtra
With 235 out of 288 assembly seats, the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance registered the biggest win in the state for any alliance or party since the 1972 election.
Updated on Nov 24, 2024 05:01 AM IST
How did the JMM win Jharkhand?
This is the third time in a row the JMM alliance has increased its seat count in the ST reserved ACs at the cost of the BJP.
Updated on Nov 24, 2024 04:16 AM IST
Weather Bee: What is at stake in Baku?
While all COPs have the mandate to mitigate the climate crisis, the ongoing one is being termed as the ‘finance COP’.
Published on Nov 22, 2024 07:06 PM IST
Behind air crisis: High baseline pollution, multiplicity of factors
Delhi's pollution remains severe, with AQI at 441. Reducing sources won't suffice; a unified effort beyond politics is crucial for improvement.
Updated on Nov 22, 2024 08:48 AM IST
Understanding AQI, and if it precisely depicts worst days
AQI is calculated by a predefined formula on the concentrations of different pollutants and then condensing the result to a single number.
Published on Nov 20, 2024 09:07 AM IST
Weather Bee | More than one dataset can breach the 1.5°C threshold this year
Divergence between datasets means that the breach of the 1.5°C threshold can be a staggered event with different datasets reporting the event in different years
Published on Nov 17, 2024 09:00 AM IST
Number Theory: Why Maharashtra’s agrarian politics is complicated and different
An HT analysis of relevant statistics shows that agriculture in Maharashtra is very different from large parts of the country
Updated on Nov 15, 2024 10:30 AM IST
Air was bad even before ‘severe’ AQI
Data analysed by HT shows 14 days of back-to-back “very poor” air days
Published on Nov 14, 2024 11:40 AM IST
Air at 8 out of 10 hot spots in Delhi hasn’t improved much in 5 years: Data
Delhi's pollution hotspots show minimal air quality improvement since 2019, with PM2.5 levels remaining high and inconsistent across monitoring stations.
Updated on Nov 11, 2024 10:18 PM IST
Number Theory: An educational explanation of Sino-Indian economic divergence - 2
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Published on Nov 08, 2024 07:25 PM IST
Number Theory: An educational explanation of Sino-Indian economic divergence - I
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Updated on Nov 08, 2024 07:08 PM IST