Climate Change |The Third Pole

More people will die of extreme heat than of infectious diseases

August 11, 2020

Increasing heat-related deaths due to climate change reveal an unequal world, with people in poorer countries at much higher risk
Two-thirds of glacier ice in Himalayas will be lost by 2100 if climate targets aren’t met

August 10, 2020

New satellite data since 2010 has allowed scientists to more reliably predict how climate change will affect the Himalayas
Opinion: Pakistan meets climate SDG, but that is not enough

July 29, 2020

Sustainable Development Goal 13 measures climate policies, not the effect of these policies – which is where Pakistan falters
Six months, two cyclones, one island: A tale of destruction in West Bengal

July 28, 2020

Life is increasingly dangerous on Mousuni in the Sundarbans, which has been dealt consecutive blows by cyclones Bulbul and Amphan
Animated film captures Kolkata swamped in climate horror

July 23, 2020

Co-directors of Wade, an award-winning short film, say what it’s like to imagine a dystopia in your home city and what they hope the film will achieve
Can the Himalayan region go green as economies flounder?

July 21, 2020

The pandemic has hit the economies of the Hindu Kush Himalayan region particularly hard, but will it be back to carbon intensive growth, or is this a chance for countries to go green?