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erosion

In Vietnam's Mekong Delta, sand mining means lost homes and fortunes

Residents of the Mekong Delta are seeing houses tumble into rivers and livelihoods disappear due to erosion driven by sand mining

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literature

Review: Amitav Ghosh fable pushes us to re-examine received wisdom

plastics

Plastic from greenhouse boom blights Vietnam’s vegetable basket

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governance

How much progress has been made on Kyrgyz-Uzbek water cooperation?

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Climate finance

Bonn climate talks end with ‘almost empty pages’

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Agriculture

Farmers in mountainous areas of Pakistan feel the heat

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hydropower

Interview: ‘The narrative around hydro in Pakistan remains superficial’

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Opinion

How military rule makes Myanmar more vulnerable to climate change

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investment

Opinion: An obscure treaty could hinder Central Asia’s decarbonisation

Smiling woman carrying two goats: Seema Begum with two goats. She does not have to sell early or cheap this year, because she has a place to keep them safe during the monsoon floods
Climate adaptation

Build, collapse, rebuild: life on the river islands of Bangladesh

Water pollution

Plastic river: Following the waste that’s choking the Chao Phraya

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Climate finance

Explainer: Can carbon markets help South Asia tackle climate change?

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renewables

Bhutan ramps up its solar ambitions

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  1. Plastic river: Following the waste that’s choking the Chao Phraya
  2. Floods disrupt monsoon weddings in Bihar
  3. Build, collapse, rebuild: life on the river islands of Bangladesh
  4. Elusive Himalayan wolves emerge on the slopes of Everest
  5. Bhutan ramps up its solar ambitions
  6. Timely warnings avert loss of life from surging glacier in Pakistan
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food security

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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technology

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

Floating solar plants were never part of India’s plans to reach 100 GW of solar power by the end of this year. But the benefits are becoming clearer and numbers are on the rise
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finance

What is happening to Pakistan’s Green Stimulus?

New climate change minister Sherry Rehman has given her assurance that Pakistan will remain serious about conservation
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negotiations

Decades on, Pakistan is still seeking a Kabul River agreement

The absence of a functioning government in upstream Afghanistan has hampered treaty efforts for the major Indus tributary
<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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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

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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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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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