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Climate change exacerbates food crisis in Nepal’s poorest region

Climate disasters are disrupting subsistence agriculture in western Nepal, where malnutrition and infant mortality are already high

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desertification

Opinion: Silence on land degradation when alarms should be sounding

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technology

Floating solar: A small but vital role for India’s sunrise sector

Europe strives to end dependency on Russian gas Article
energy

Europe strives to end dependency on Russian gas

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Water pollution

Dirty, depleted Kabul River a risk to millions in Afghanistan, Pakistan

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conflict

Comment: Environment ignored as Myanmar struggles with coup

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negotiations

Decades on, Pakistan is still seeking a Kabul River agreement

A boy holds an umbrella as a sunshield during a heatwave in New Delhi in April 2022 Article
heat

Why India’s heatwave has turned out the lights

Oil palm fruit being left to rot Article
Agriculture

Oil palm pioneers doubt crop will take off in Himalayan foothills

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fossil fuels

Asia’s bet on gas looks increasingly risky

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Agriculture

Climate change hits harvest of one of world’s priciest mushrooms in Himalayas

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climate action

Opinion: Pakistan’s new government must build on climate successes

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climate impacts

Hospitals in Uttarakhand struggle to provide care due to lack of water

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  1. Why India’s heatwave has turned out the lights
  2. Decades on, Pakistan is still seeking a Kabul River agreement
  3. Dirty, depleted Kabul River a risk to millions in Afghanistan, Pakistan
  4. Climate change hits harvest of one of world’s priciest mushrooms in Himalayas
  5. Oil palm pioneers doubt crop will take off in Himalayan foothills
  6. Roundtable: The future of energy in Pakistan
<p>Taken in 2015, this image shows one of the last Irrawaddy dolphins in the Mekong’s Chheu Teal pool on the Laos-Cambodia border. The species is now extinct in this part of the river, with fewer than 90 adults surviving downstream in Cambodia. (Image © Thomas Cristofoletti / Ruom)</p>
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Cambodia strives to protect the Mekong’s last dolphins

With the death of the last Irrawaddy dolphin on the border with Laos, the few remaining in Cambodia’s deep river pools face a multitude of threats

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For villagers in Nepali Himalayas, climate change is a signal of divine revenge

Residents of Walung in northeastern Nepal see disrupted snowfall and other environmental change as evidence of divine retribution for moral failings, risking a crisis among the community
Crocodile wrangler Vah Regni steps onto a Siamese crocodile as he captures it in a farm in Siem Reap Article
conservation

Cambodia’s crocodile farmers and conservationists forge unlikely alliance

With Siamese crocodiles on the brink of extinction in the wild, conservationists are turning to Southeast Asia’s crocodile farms for help – despite their role in driving the species’ disappearance
A reactor pressure vessel and steam generator for the first power unit of the Rooppur nuclear power plant are shipped from Russia to Bangladesh in August 2020 Article
nuclear

Questions over Russia-funded nuclear power plant in Bangladesh

Officials are preparing to make up for an electricity shortfall if sanctions delay completion of the Rooppur nuclear power plant
Three women wearing brightly coloured clothes sit on the ground Article
migration

Despite repeated disasters in Assam, many have no desire to migrate

Most victims of climate-related disasters do not want to leave their homes and communities, and many develop new livelihoods and coping strategies – yet this is often overlooked in adaptation policies

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Life in the shadow of a cement plant in Kazakhstan

Local residents and activists say that the Gezhouba Shieli cement plant, part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, is polluting the air, water and soil of a village less than a kilometre away

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The struggle to save Asia’s wildlife The struggle to save Asia’s wildlife 10 Articles
Science

New frogs and pandas: How genetics can aid conservation in the Himalayas

The team from Thanamir village on the way to set up camera traps to monitor wildlife in the community forest, Ramya Nair
conservation

Interview: Indigenous-led conservation in Nagaland preserves rare wildlife

White-bellied heron in Bhutan
endangered species

World’s rarest heron on the brink in its last Himalayan stronghold

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