Deepak Adhikari reports from the largest arts event in south Asia and the biggest with an environmental theme in the world.

Asian hydropower advocates point to dammed-to-the-hilt America as a reason to press ahead with controversial plans. But the US is still spending time and money undoing the damage of the past.

At this year’s UN climate summit, governments have again failed to take any significant step to combat global warming. They have done just enough to keep the UN process going. Is it worth the trouble?

Around 2.8 million people are to be moved to new towns in Shaanxi Province, linked, in part, to the south-north water transfer project. But without land or job opportunities, many are finding their new life to be harder than before.

A universal climate change agreement is both necessary and possible, says UN climate chief Christiana Figueres.

The Doha deal is clearly too weak to have any significant effect on the global warming that is gathering pace. But it does open a tiny gateway to compensate countries for climate change effects.

With some European countries pledging money and all countries agreeing to a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, chances of a deal brightened on the penultimate evening of the UN climate summit in Doha.

Sandy has brought global attention to storms and their relationship with climate change. A new study has found that developing countries in Asia were the hardest hit by storms in 2011.