Leaders see the pandemic as an opportunity to boost agriculture and wean the country off expensive imports from India, after decades of unsuccessful attempts to promote self-sufficiency

Two researchers who walked along a 270-km stretch of the Betwa river found that, despite promises of rehabilitation, nearby villagers have lost agricultural livelihood due to the construction of dams

The Covid-19 pandemic could be the spur needed to aggressively pursue the Sustainable Development Goals, especially on water and sanitation, but it is unlikely to happen without significant assistance to developing countries

Chinese dams will determine the future of Southeast Asia’s largest lake

Farmers in Pakistan’s Hazara belt suffer huge losses as wild boars, migrating due to warmer weather, eat their way through cultivated crop and uproot vegetation

The Covid-19 crisis highlights the long-term neglect of women and marginalised groups in water policies in South Asia

On Earth Day, a photographic profile of the Jaladash, an impoverished community being swamped by a rising sea

A NASA study uses new techniques to predict how climate change will change landslide patterns in the glacier-covered regions of Nepal and China

Migrant workers in India, Pakistan and Nepal are crushed by poverty as earnings come to an abrupt halt in the lockdown forced by the Covid-19 pandemic

Despite limited facilities in Nepal’s only zoo, authorities are refusing to send a rescued sloth bear to India, citing the ‘nationality’ of the bear