Water is everywhere in coastal Bangladesh, but is increasingly undrinkable as sea level rise caused by climate change is turning water sources saline

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

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the severe challenges faced by the community health workers who provide the only available medical healthcare for indigenous communities

The latest Lancet Countdown report identifies how Covid-19 has created an opportunity for policymakers to work on health and climate change issues together to minimise diseases and deaths

Months later, residents of Baghjan village suffer headaches, nausea and anxiety with no idea of long-term health impacts or whether they will get proper compensation

Tourists have crowded into Gilgit-Baltistan as hotels open up, but scant enforcement of social-distancing rules is heightening fears that the pandemic will spread

In parts of northern India, including Delhi, life expectancy shrivels by over nine years from breathing filthy air, a situation that can be reversed only through drastic policy changes and action

The Covid-19 pandemic could be the spur needed to aggressively pursue the Sustainable Development Goals, especially on water and sanitation, but it is unlikely to happen without significant assistance to developing countries

Loopholes that allow trade of wildlife products for use in medicines, clothing and ornaments will allow the industry to continue to flourish, and with it the risks of future pandemics

As a major new report warns that biodiversity loss presents an existential threat to human life, we asked the experts what should be done