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The wounds of poverty: salt workers in Achro Thar
January 21, 2020
Labourers collecting salt from Achro Thar’s lakes in Pakistan’s Sindh province are paid low wages and live in miserable conditions
Himalayan cold wave, avalanches, kill hundreds in South Asia
January 20, 2020
Military mobilised to help rescue efforts, but many still missing in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal
Kashmir’s waste epidemic continues untreated
January 17, 2020
Despite clear rules and regulations, and orders by the National Green Tribunal, the government continues to ignore Kashmir’s municipal solid waste crisis
Climate change threatens Pakistan’s elusive snow leopard
January 16, 2020
Snow leopards face an emerging and serious threat as the common leopard, a stronger animal, intrudes into their natural habitat due to the impact of climate change and habitat loss
Civil-military relations transform in Nepal’s Chitwan Park
January 15, 2020
An ambitious management plan for the buffer zone around Nepal’s most famous national park has resulted in transformed relations between the locals, the Army, and the administration, reports Mukesh Pokhrel
New concerns for transboundary rivers as China discusses diversion
January 14, 2020
Chinese premier sparks talk the controversial western route of the South-to-North Water Diversion project will go ahead