As China’s Belt and Road Initiative enters its second decade, what lies ahead?

Opportunities for infrastructure development and trade have been immense but debt, financing of polluting projects and environmental issues are concerns.

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· Oct 01, 2023 · 07:30 pm

These four South Asian cities are showing how to bake climate action into development plans

The creation of Urban Low Emissions Development Strategies shows the value of sharing knowledge and insights at the local level.

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· Mar 03, 2023 · 07:30 pm

Despite worsening heatwaves and floods, India is pushing construction at the cost of the environment

Bangladesh is in the same boat.

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· May 26, 2022 · 09:30 pm

Like India, Pakistan and Central Asia are reeling from unprecedented heatwaves

Scientists classify heatwaves as one of the earliest and most obvious impacts of climate change.

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· Apr 15, 2022 · 01:30 pm

In Bangladesh, musicians sing songs of loss and longing caused by climate change

River songs narrate the pains and sorrows caused by floods, erosion and other environmental extremes.

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· Aug 01, 2021 · 09:30 pm

In India and Nepal, forest fires across the Himalayas are threatening lives and biodiversity

With the mountainous region facing the worst-in-a-decade wildfires, a thick blanket of smoke has covered Kathmandu.

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· Apr 24, 2021 · 09:30 pm

China’s hydropower ambitions on the Brahmaputra could trigger a dam-building race with India

Powerchina’s announcement to build a large dam can have disastrous consequences for the ecology of Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas.

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· Dec 06, 2020 · 07:30 pm

A student in Dhaka was killed for criticising a water-sharing deal between India and Bangladesh

The brutal murder on the campus of a premier university underlines the growing intolerance in Bangladesh.

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· Oct 09, 2019 · 07:30 pm

‘We found disaster after disaster’: A photographer’s account of travelling along the Mekong River

Gareth Bright travelled from the sea to the source of the river and to find pollution and communities struggling to adapt to change.

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· Mar 04, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Why the World Bank has been dragged into the Indo-Pak tangle over the Indus Water Treaty

Two separate processes were filed by the neighbouring countries under the treaty, which the World Bank accepted.

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· Nov 15, 2016 · 08:30 pm

Garbage and sewage are choking rivers in Asia, Africa and Latin America

Half of all rivers in Asia are affected by pathogen pollution due to untreated sewage, warns a new UN report.

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· Nov 05, 2016 · 08:30 pm

Elusive snow leopard photographed in Sikkim

WWF camera traps capture images of the snow leopard in Sikkim for the first time.

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· Apr 20, 2016 · 03:30 pm