“We should look behind the curtain”
January 30, 2012
State-owned companies are pushing for a “Great Leap Forward” in dam building. But Chinese NGOs can hold them to account, environmentalist Yu Xiaogang tells Isabel Hilton.
January 30, 2012
State-owned companies are pushing for a “Great Leap Forward” in dam building. But Chinese NGOs can hold them to account, environmentalist Yu Xiaogang tells Isabel Hilton.
January 27, 2012
Two recent scientific studies have highlighted the chronic water problems in the Yangtze River Basin.
January 19, 2012
Debating the precise, quantifiable flows of the Brahmaputra will not foster regional cooperation. Water diplomats should discuss the river’s environmental value instead, argues Rohan D’Souza.
January 17, 2012
Planners and donors for a new wave of African dam projects should learn lessons from the past and not treat local people as mere obstacles, argues Jamie Skinner.
January 13, 2012
A review of recent research on permafrost on the Tibetan plateau published in July 2010 in Earth-Science Reviews.
January 06, 2012
The most comprehensive assessment of Himalayan glaciers yet, published in 2011 by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development.
January 06, 2012
A study by the Observer Research Foundation that analyses media reporting on water issues related to the Indus, in the leading dailies of both India and Pakistan.
January 06, 2012
The Digital Himalaya project was designed by Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turin as a strategy for archiving and making available ethnographic materials from the Himalayan region. Based at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Yale University.
January 06, 2012
Trilingual English, Nepali and Hindi website of the Kalimpong Press Club covers Darjeeling, Kalimpong and less comprehensively Sikkim.
January 06, 2012
Two years ago a massive landslide devastated Pakistan’s Hunza Valley. People in the region remain stranded even now and not enough has been done to prevent future calamities, writes Noreen Haider.