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China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway remains uncertain
Two and a half decades in negotiations, the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway remains stalled on basic issues, with no clear way forward
Posted 13 Jan 2021 in Articles -
‘Pandemic a chance to correct course on climate and health’
The latest Lancet Countdown report identifies how Covid-19 has created an opportunity for policymakers to work on health and climate change issues together to minimise diseases and deaths
Posted 03 Dec 2020 in Articles -
Opinion: Time to recognise and respect rivers’ legal rights
Courts and legislatures around the world are adopting laws that give nature many of the same rights as people, reviving an ancient solution to the interrelated crises of climate change and biodiversity decline
Posted 11 Nov 2020 in Articles&Opinion -
World famous Kashmiri saffron continues to decline
Despite the formation of a Saffron Mission to irrigate the land and the labelling of the crop as ‘geographically indicated’, experts fear saffron cultivation will continue to dwindle
Posted 02 Nov 2020 in Articles -
Opinion: Protecting coasts can give BIMSTEC an urgent sense of purpose
Millions living around the Bay of Bengal need urgent protection from climate change impacts such as sea level rise and more severe cyclones
Posted 28 Oct 2020 in Articles&Opinion -
![Indu Devi, 35, of Chapar village of Moinuddinagar block in Samastipur district of Bihar. She is suffering from lesions on her hands and feet but she never bothered to find out how they appeared. She said these don't itch, so she didn't think they need to be treated [image by: Umesh Kumar Ray]](https://www.thethirdpole.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Indu-Devi-35-of-Chapar-village-of-Moinuddinagar-block-in-Samastipur-district-of-Bihar.-Credits-Umesh-Kumar-Ray-300x300.jpg)
Arsenic-laced water kills over one million in India’s Ganga basin
Over thirty years since high levels of arsenic was found in groundwater in West Bengal, little has been done to avert a slow-burn health crisis
Posted 27 Oct 2020 in Articles -
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Concerns as snow and common leopards turn competitors
As climate change forces snow leopards to lower altitudes, they encounter new threats including from common leopards moving upwards for the same reason – a report on World Snow Leopard Day
Posted 23 Oct 2020 in Articles -
China’s new environmentalist avatar contains an iron fist
In a newly published book, scholars Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro provide a cautionary take on the consequences of coercive environmentalism
Posted 13 Oct 2020 in Articles -
Bhutan considers exploiting forests to offset pandemic losses
Experts call for caution as Bhutan, an environmental trailblazer, assesses whether to ramp up timber production
Posted 07 Oct 2020 in Articles -
Pastoralists push for recognition at the UN
A call for an International Year for Rangelands and Pastoralists is an effort to better recognise half of the world’s land and the people who have historically taken care of it – and would particularly benefit communities in South Asia
Posted 30 Sep 2020 in Articles