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

Writer and illustrator Rumana Husain has been educating children about the pressures the planet is under since the 1980s. The Third Pole talked with her about the environment, her pandemic project and her latest book

Countries must set aside territorial disputes and work together to clean up radioactive waste seeping into rivers and farmland in the Ferghana Valley – causing an environmental and health catastrophe for people living in the region

Kumtor, a new documentary, explores the exploitation and cover-ups surrounding a Canadian gold mining company in Kyrgyzstan

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 pandemic has hit the economies of the Hindu Kush Himalayan region particularly hard, but will it be back to carbon intensive growth, or is this a chance for countries to go green?

Due to a clogged, ineffective drainage system, even a short shower brings great misery to residents; experts say solutions can come from improved urban planning

Campaigners blame the car lobby and political difficulties for the policy U-turn on electric vehicles

No attempt made to salvage the cargo that keeps poisoning the Ganga and other rivers

In a country deeply affected by climate change, India’s move to throw open mining in its central forests for private companies is a deeply troubling step, writes Soumya Sarkar