Climate Change | The Third Pole

Water is big issue before India’s elections
April 15, 2019
The manifestos of India’s main national parties, the BJP and the Congress, lay a great deal of emphasis on water management, but there are few new ideas to manage the big crisis
Bangladesh’s fishing boat communities struggle for recognition
April 12, 2019
Displaced fisherfolk on Bhola Island are locked in a long fight to gain national identity cards to access basic services – as sea level rise and river erosion makes life ever more precarious
Melting permafrost triggers thousands of landslides across the Arctic
April 11, 2019
Dramatic increase in Arctic landslides highlights the similar hazards awaiting the Himalayas where permafrost is also melting with rising temperatures
Can South Asian rivers be ‘regional public goods’?
April 03, 2019
A multi-sectoral and multilateral approach to South Asia’s rivers could provide sustainable development, but it needs to include those already marginalised by a narrow development path
Glacial lakes in Himalayas get bigger, more dangerous
April 02, 2019
As the threat of glacier lakes, and their catastrophic overflow floods, gets bigger in the Himalayas, Bhutan’s work in dealing with it may make for an important example of best practice in the region
As the Arctic melts, carbon creeps out
March 19, 2019
New research on how permafrost melting in the Arctic releases carbon dioxide and methane show cause for concern, and some limited optimism