Pastoralists push for recognition at the UN

September 30, 2020

A call for an International Year for Rangelands and Pastoralists is an effort to better recognise half of the world’s land and the people who have historically taken care of it – and would particularly benefit communities in South Asia

Glacial lakes become more deadly as Himalayan ice melts

September 29, 2020

Researchers map the most dangerous lakes and call on China and Nepal to work together to reduce the threat of catastrophic flooding

Photo story: Baghjan gas explosion in Assam, four months on

September 25, 2020

Local people endure deafening noise, pollution, ruined homes and loss of livelihoods as Oil India Limited struggles to regain control of its blown-out well

Forests, indigenous people disappear along India’s Betwa river

September 23, 2020

Local communities along the Betwa in the Bundelkhand region are being blamed for deforestation and are losing access to their livelihoods, medicinal plants and way of life

The ascent of Lalana: triumph and tragedy

September 17, 2020

Fifty years ago, a group of Indian women scaled a mountain that had never been climbed before, and has not been climbed since then; not all of them returned. Sudipta Sengupta, who was deputy leader of the expedition, shares her story

Steep global biodiversity loss puts humanity in peril

September 16, 2020

The world is losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate, posing grave danger to human health and prosperity, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity warned in its flagship report