More than a million are at risk, as cramped living conditions, together with lack of water, communications, and healthcare, leave refugees vulnerable to disease

The shutdown of exports, especially to China, has had a devastating impact on the livelihood of half a million families along the Bay of Bengal coast

Thousands of people from the Sundarbans who work all over India have returned home without being tested for Covid-19, posing a risk to their families and everyone around

China sends vital medical supplies to Pakistan as both governments emphasise their alliance, but experts say Pakistani authorities must step up and work on better strategies

Packed inside tiny homes on metre-wide lanes, slum dwellers facing the Covid-19 pandemic wonder how they can distance themselves

We are all being told that the best way to keep coronavirus at bay is washing hands with soap and water several times a day; authorities need to quickly come up with solutions for the large number of Indians who do not have access to enough clean water

Government spending should incentivise consumption of public goods and services, not investment in big infrastructure and heavy industry, write Yao Zhe and Wu Yixiu

The Mising community living on riverbanks in Assam finds itself abandoned as floods become more severe and more erratic due to climate change

China’s deeply embedded wild animal trade may have been responsible for facilitating the outbreak of both SARS and the coronavirus, but strong commercial interests have kept effective regulations from being adopted

Refugees from then East Pakistan and from other parts of Uttar Pradesh, residents of Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit district are being displaced again and again as the Sharda River submerges their land and homes