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Way forward from the UNCCD COP 14
October 15, 2019
Steps need to be taken urgently to implement insights on land degradation, drought management, and sustainable agriculture at COP14, or they will remain unimplemented
Fishing villages dry up on the Indus
October 14, 2019
Dam construction and other upstream activities have left the fishing communities in Pakistan along the Indus with little to fish, and livelihoods that have dried up with the river
Kashmir communications ban hits key climate studies
October 11, 2019
Research on alpine forestry and below-ground carbon sequestration in the Himalayas – an area with a severe dearth of data – suffers as a communications blackout is imposed on the region
Sustainable coffee culture in the Mekong
October 10, 2019
As the harm of intensive coffee cultivation has become clearer, the Yunnan is finding ways to encourage more sustainable forms of growing the precious bean
Dhaka student murdered for criticising water deal with India
October 09, 2019
The brutal murder of a student in Bangladesh’s top university highlights the incendiary debate on water diplomacy with India, as well as the silencing of criticism of the government
Climate change comes for Mekong’s coffee
October 08, 2019
Drought aggravated by climate change is hurting coffee growers in the Mekong region, and intensive farming techniques are part of the problem