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‘Extremely severe’ Cyclone Amphan enters West Bengal

May 19, 2020

Thousands of people evacuated from their homes are crammed inside the buildings being used as Covid-19 quarantine centres, because there is no other shelter available
Covid-19 lockdown adds to woes of climate-hit Indian fishers

May 14, 2020

Fisheries markets collapsed in the first days of the lockdown, impoverishing hundreds of thousands of small fishers, and recovery is nowhere in sight
Pandemic effect – can we save the SDG on water and sanitation?

April 28, 2020

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
Warmer temperature lures wild boar to Pakistan’s northern farmlands

April 24, 2020

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
In photos: The forgotten fishers of Bangladesh

April 22, 2020

On Earth Day, a photographic profile of the Jaladash, an impoverished community being swamped by a rising sea
Himalayas will see dramatic rise in landslides by end of the century

April 21, 2020

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