Scientists have used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – also known as drones – for the first time to monitor melting glaciers in the Himalayas more accurately

It can be riskier to row across the mighty Brahmaputra to get to a health centre than to give birth at home – an everyday reality in north-east India

India’s new government has renamed the environment ministry to include climate change, and has asked the water resources minister to clean the country’s holiest river

The tale of a New Jersey cancer town shows how the US and China struggle with similar institutional failures, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Dan Fagin tells thethirdpole.net

An expert panel appointed by India’s environment ministry blames hydropower projects for magnifying last year’s Uttarakhand disaster, and the Supreme Court halts 24 projects

Efforts to wipe out the pika on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau will further damage the fragile grasslands, warn campaigners

Almost a quarter of glaciers in Nepal and Bhutan have disappeared over the past three decades, according to new research based on satellite data and field studies

Under the leadership of Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party has swept India’s elections on planks of governance and development. But there has been no talk of sustainability in the campaign

No longer able to hide behind US inertia, China faces unprecedented international pressure to peak emissions, says Wang Ke

The development of rice seeds resistant to floods and droughts is a boon for Nepal farmers struggling to cope with too much, or too little water