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: 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
Weather Bee | What a forecast for 1.5°C warming in 2024 means
New climate data from the C3S shows that 2024 is almost certain to be the first year with temperatures exceeding the pre-industrial average by more than 1.5°C
Published on Nov 08, 2024 07:30 AM IST
Number Theory: What explains Donald Trump's electoral resurrection?
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Published on Nov 07, 2024 09:40 AM IST
Drastic drop in Punjab farm fires, but late harvest a worry
NASA’s VIIRS satellite monitoring system recorded 3,916 fire incidents between September 15 and November 2 this year, compared to 11,262 during the same period last year, marking a dramatic shift in the annual stubble burning pattern that typically blankets north India in hazardous smog.
Updated on Nov 03, 2024 06:14 AM IST
Number Theory: Thank the weather for post-Diwali clean air
the air quality on the morning after Diwali must not be taken as proof that fewer firecrackers were burst this year or their bursting did not pollute the air
Updated on Nov 02, 2024 04:43 PM IST
Throwing caution to the wind on Diwali in Delhi
Thousands ignored the ban on firecrackers, filling the night air with a dense haze of toxic smoke that pushed pollution to hazardous levels
Updated on Nov 02, 2024 05:08 AM IST
Weather Bee: Dry weather, record-low snow pack kept northern India warm in Oct
Temperatures are running warmer than normal (considered as the average temperature in the 1981-2010 period, according to IMD) in the northern half of India.
Published on Nov 01, 2024 12:45 PM IST
Number Theory: What do onions & air-tickets tell about India’s consumer economy
Here’s what HT’s detailed analysis of unit level data from the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) conducted in 2022-23 shows
Published on Oct 30, 2024 10:06 AM IST