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Interview: Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer on the casualties of climate change
May 23, 2019
Josh Haner’s images capture the visceral losses due to climate change from the air and sea
Book review: Climate adaptation impossible without community participation
May 21, 2019
With examples from South Asia, this book makes a strong case for participation of all in the governance of climate adaptation projects
What use is dredging the Brahmaputra?
May 20, 2019
Sediments will flow into the Brahmaputra about as fast as the river is dredged, negating the whole point of the exercise which will cost billions of rupees for India
Ascetics, environmentalists, and a forgotten Ganga
May 17, 2019
Himanshu Thakkar speaks to the thethirdpole.net about environmentalists and ascetics, hunger strikes, hydropower projects, and a Ganga that might be holy, but is nowhere near clean
Why the Indian Ocean is spawning strong and deadly tropical cyclones
May 15, 2019
As oceans heat up tropical cyclones will are becoming more frequent, but it is local conditions, especially the prevalence of low lying areas and weak infrastructure that determine how devastating they are
Preserving the pangolin
May 14, 2019
Hunted for its scales and its meat, the population of the pangolins across South Asia is endangered by a massive trade in animal parts supplying the appetite for Chinese traditional medicine