Preparing for floods: five lessons from Europe
November 28, 2014
European cities are moving away from concrete dams and levees as the best way to reduce damage from flooding
November 28, 2014
European cities are moving away from concrete dams and levees as the best way to reduce damage from flooding
November 28, 2014
Pakistan’s port city Karachi, one of the world’s largest cities, faces frequent floods due to rampant construction on flood plains, blocked drains and destruction of mangroves
November 28, 2014
South Asian countries – including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh – agree to develop cross border energy trade and call for a legally binding global climate deal by 2015 ahead of the UN climate talks in Peru
November 27, 2014
Ahead of the next round of climate-change negotiations, we asked a group of experts whether or not China should still be considered a poor country
November 27, 2014
Water minister Uma Bharti assured activists gathered at India Rivers Week that the controversial interlinking project will be scrapped if the government is convinced it will have adverse environmental consequences
November 27, 2014
As Nepal signs a deal with India to build another 900 MW dam during the Indian prime minister’s visit to Kathmandu, concerns grow that the rush to develop hydropower is misguided
November 26, 2014
China’s investment in over 16,000 megawatts of power projects will ease Pakistan’s energy crisis, claims senior minister, but experts warn problems of corruption and gross mismanagement remain
November 24, 2014
A film made by children who live on chars, river islands of Bangladesh and India, shows their struggle with floods and social discrimination
November 20, 2014
The Indian government plans to fast-track an ill-conceived and potentially disastrous scheme to link 30 rivers across the country, including the Brahmaputra and the Ganga in the Himalayas
November 18, 2014
The scientific debate around climate change and extreme weather events is evolving, but will compensation for poorer countries be on the agenda at UN negotiations in Paris next year?