A new CPEC Authority aims to centralise decision-making and take autonomy away from the provinces where the corridor’s key projects will be built. This makes the future of CPEC and its environmental consequences even more opaque

After failing to sign a water-sharing agreement with India, Bangladesh receives support from China to develop a USD 1 billion engineering scheme on the Teesta

The saiga antelope has been around since the Ice Age, but poaching, habitat loss and mass die-offs were catastrophic until conservation across Central Asia started to work

Life is increasingly dangerous on Mousuni in the Sundarbans, which has been dealt consecutive blows by cyclones Bulbul and Amphan

Spiralling costs, long delays, earthquakes and landslide risks plague developers trying to build hydropower projects in the Indian Himalayan states

Scientists hope recent border clashes in the Himalayas and the pandemic will not derail the limited progress made on research cooperation over the past decade

On World Environment Day, a report on villagers in eastern Nepal forced to move as mountain springs dry up in the Himalayas

Pakistani scientists have successfully tried a simple solution to turn the pests into protein and income amid the worst swarms for decades

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

Packed inside tiny homes on metre-wide lanes, slum dwellers facing the Covid-19 pandemic wonder how they can distance themselves