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Climate Change

  • Kazakhstan president, Russian Government / Alamy

    Central Asian countries fail to boost climate ambitions

    January 07, 2021

    With the exception of Kazakhstan, Central Asian countries did not take the opportunity to ramp up their emissions reduction targets at the Climate Ambition Summit in December 2020. An environmental campaigner says realisation of the climate crisis is dawning in the region, and that this must be matched with increased ambition

  • Water Bangladesh, Riyan Sobhan Talha

    Safe water costs 40 times more in coastal Bangladesh than cities

    January 05, 2021

    Water is everywhere in coastal Bangladesh, but is increasingly undrinkable as sea level rise caused by climate change is turning water sources saline

  • deforestation, Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, Daniel J. Rao / Alamy

    Best of 2020: Could the Himalayas harbour the next pandemic?

    January 01, 2021

    Environmental destruction and climate change are driving pandemics, with the Hindu Kush Himalayas a potential hotspot for new emerging diseases

  • Cyclone Amphan aftermath shows a house ruined by the cyclone

    Best of 2020: A tale of destruction in West Bengal

    December 28, 2020

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

  • Weather station at Machapuchare Base Camp, Himalayas, Nepal. Ashley Cooper / Alamy Stock Photo

    Best of 2020: Will border disputes affect climate research?

    December 25, 2020

    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

  • Desert locusts attack crops near Okara district, Pakistan

    Best of 2020: Pakistan turns locust threat into chicken feed

    December 23, 2020

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

  • Kazakhstan president, Russian Government / Alamy

    Central Asian countries fail to boost climate ambitions

    January 07, 2021

  • Water Bangladesh, Riyan Sobhan Talha

    Safe water costs 40 times more in coastal Bangladesh than cities

    January 05, 2021

  • deforestation, Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, Daniel J. Rao / Alamy

    Best of 2020: Could the Himalayas harbour the next pandemic?

    January 01, 2021

  • Cyclone Amphan aftermath shows a house ruined by the cyclone

    Best of 2020: A tale of destruction in West Bengal

    December 28, 2020

  • Weather station at Machapuchare Base Camp, Himalayas, Nepal. Ashley Cooper / Alamy Stock Photo

    Best of 2020: Will border disputes affect climate research?

    December 25, 2020

  • Desert locusts attack crops near Okara district, Pakistan

    Best of 2020: Pakistan turns locust threat into chicken feed

    December 23, 2020

  • South Asia could see 40 million climate migrants by 2030

    December 18, 2020

  • Scrapping imported coal projects, Pakistan fails to let go of local lignite

    December 16, 2020

Bangladesh

  • Water Bangladesh, Riyan Sobhan Talha

    Safe water costs 40 times more in coastal Bangladesh than cities

    January 05, 2021

  • deforestation, Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, Daniel J. Rao / Alamy

    Best of 2020: Could the Himalayas harbour the next pandemic?

    January 01, 2021

  • Weather station at Machapuchare Base Camp, Himalayas, Nepal. Ashley Cooper / Alamy Stock Photo

    Best of 2020: Will border disputes affect climate research?

    December 25, 2020

  • Climate change worsens water crisis in Indus-Ganga-Brahmaputra basins

    December 07, 2020

Pakistan

  • deforestation, Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, Daniel J. Rao / Alamy

    Best of 2020: Could the Himalayas harbour the next pandemic?

    January 01, 2021

  • Weather station at Machapuchare Base Camp, Himalayas, Nepal. Ashley Cooper / Alamy Stock Photo

    Best of 2020: Will border disputes affect climate research?

    December 25, 2020

  • Desert locusts attack crops near Okara district, Pakistan

    Best of 2020: Pakistan turns locust threat into chicken feed

    December 23, 2020

  • Scrapping imported coal projects, Pakistan fails to let go of local lignite

    December 16, 2020

Videos

  • Climate refugees stripped of citizenship in Assam

    November 08, 2019

  • Gagas valley in Uttarakhand, irrigated by the Gagas river [image by: Hridayesh Joshi]

    Spring-fed rivers in the Indian Himalayas drying up

    February 06, 2019

  • Only a little grass and a few animals grazing near the Deosai National Park [image by: Amar Guriro]

    Climate change hits herders on Himalayan meadow

    September 07, 2018

  • Watch: the biomimic tree at COP23

    January 12, 2018

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