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

New research calls for a switch to healthier foods and sustainable farming, writes Isabella Kaminski

The rush to harvest rare caterpillar fungus – or “Himalayan Viagra” – has brought prosperity to Tibetan nomads but the medicinal crop maybe running out

Numerous court orders have failed to galvanise city government to tackle “disgraceful” tide of waste polluting in this Kashmir idyll

New research links smoke from cook stoves to high levels of stunted growth among children in Nepal