South Asia needs to unite on climate change
A day after a UN panel predicted gloomy future for South Asia where climate change may even push nations to war due to pressure on natural resources, its chairman R K Pachauri on Tuesday admitted that
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Sri Lanka mudslides: Death toll reaches 92 with many still missing
109 people are still listed as missing, according to the Disaster Management Centre The death toll from floods and landslides caused by heavy rains in Sri Lanka has risen to 92, officials said. Soldiers
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Defying climate change: putting children and women first
Defying Climate Change, a report by Climate Action Network South Asia & UNICEF India introduces innovative and successful community based adaptation projects being led by NGO’s in India that are helping
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The big cats' decline is understated making numbers of snow leopards in the wild impossible to determine
If conservationists across the Himalayas can prove that counting these predators will help villagers more than killing them can, efforts to protect the snow leopard will succeed Snow leopards have the
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Reducing poverty by closing South Asia’s infrastructure gap
According to the new report, Reducing Poverty by Closing South Asia's Infrastructure Gap, South Asian countries will have to invest as much as $2.5 trillion on transport, electricity, water supply and
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Palaeoclimatic insights into forcing and response of monsoon rainfall
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Precarity and the pandemic: COVID-19 and poverty incidence, intensity, and severity in developing countries
<p>This paper makes a set of estimates for the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty incidence, intensity, and severity in developing countries and on the distribution of global poverty.
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CSE's Outreach in South Asia: Bhutan
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) collaborated with the National Environment Commission (NEC), Bhutan, by signing a MoU on May 7, 2012 in Paro, Bhutan.
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Recurrent wildfires destroying forests
Recurrent wildfires have destroyed more than 500 hectares of forest area in Gulmi district in the last one month. The wildfires engulfed more than 500 hectares of forest area in various community and
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Warmer winters increasing risk of avalanches in the Himalayas, studies find
Winters are getting warmer in northwest Himalayas, which is increasing the risk of avalanches, two new studies have found. Winter temperatures in the northwestern Himalayas have risen by 0.65 degrees
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East Africa a bright spot as world crawls towards energy goals
LISBON, May 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The world is moving too slowly to meet targets to provide electric power and clean cooking to everyone on the planet by 2030, with progress on using less-polluting
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Blast at India-developed hydroelectricity project in Nepal weeks before inauguration by Modi
KATHMANDU: A bomb exploded today at the office of a hydroelectricity project being developed with Indian assistance in eastern Nepal, an official said, weeks before its inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra
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Internal Displacement 2020: Mid-Year Update
<p>Around 14.6 million new internal displacements were recorded across 127 countries and territories between January and June 2020, according to a new report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
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The women’s empowerment in nutrition index
Rural women face many obstacles that thwart their well-being. Policies that seek to empower them, for example, by improving livelihood opportunities, often do not translate into improvements in other areas,
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Pakistan floods kill at least 53 after heavy rains
At least 53 people have been killed by flash floods caused by torrential rain in northwest Pakistan, say officials. The rain began on Saturday bringing flooding to parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kashmir
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Asian Development Outlook 2020 Update: Wellness In Worrying Times
<p>As the pandemic persists, developing Asia is projected to contract by 0.7% in 2020—the first regional GDP contraction since the early 1960s. Developing Asia excluding the newly industrialized
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The institutional context for tackling climate change in South Asia
This paper provides highlights of the institutional context for tackling climate change across South Asia based on an assessment carried out as part of the Action on Climate Today (ACT) programme. The
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The institutional context for tackling climate change in South Asia
This paper provides highlights of the institutional context for tackling climate change across South Asia based on an assessment carried out as part of the Action on Climate Today (ACT) programme. The
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Air quality, health and toxics impacts of the proposed coal power cluster in Payra, Bangladesh
<p>Bangladesh is among the countries most affected by air pollution, with the life expectancy in the country reduced by almost 2 years due to the impacts of pollution exposure on health. The high levels
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World economic situation and prospects as of mid-2021
While the global growth outlook has improved, led by robust rebound in China and the United States, surging COVID-19 infections and inadequate vaccination progress in many countries threaten a broad-based