As two marine nations, both deeply impacted by climate change, research collaboration between India and Norway is both natural and necessary according to senior decisionmakers of both countries

Trawler owners ignore the seasonal bans on Hilsa fishing, driving Bengal’s favourite fish to near-extinction in the Ganga

Strict implementation of the seasonal bans on Hilsa fishing has brought the species back from near extinction, but the government is struggling to adequately help the poor fishermen these bans have effected

Alongside a conference on polar science, the Research Director of the Norwegian Polar Institute, Nalan Koc, spoke to thethirdpole.net on why it makes sense for India and Norway to cooperate

The director of India’s National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, M Ravichandran, speaks to thethirdpole.net on India’s experiences and hopes from research in the polar regions

Farmers are shifting from staple crops to apple trees because of melting glaciers and warmer temperatures

The Indian government is trying to give more powers to the centre to solve inter-state river disputes, but its draft bill fails to recognise realities and suffers from a bureaucratic approach

The rise in sea levels due to climate change is likely to turn the soil more saline in large parts of the Sundarbans region in India and Bangladesh, making cultivation unviable and forcing mass migration

Pumpkin cultivation on sandbars has drawn hundreds and thousands out of extreme poverty in Bangladesh, and this change of cultivation patterns may pave the way for others as water flow in the Teesta declines

The cull of hundreds of thousands of pigs in China calls for a re-think of food systems, writes Zhou Wanqing