Climate Change

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Loss & Damage & What It Means For South Asia

The effects of climate change are already being felt across the world. As temperatures continue to rise, South Asia is…

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Arctic Heating Up 4 Times Faster Than Global Warming: Study

The Arctic is heating up more than four times faster than the rate of global warming, according to a new…

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Women’s Lives Get Harder In Bundelkhand As Water Scarcity Grows

Every day during the summer months, Kamlawati Yadav wakes up at 6 am and walks half a kilometre to a…

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Climate Change Is Making Flooding Worse

Heavy rain combined with melting snow can be a destructive combination. In mid-June 2022, storms dumped up to 5 inches…

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How Hot Is Too Hot For The Human Body?

Heat waves are becoming supercharged as the climate changes, lasting longer, becoming more frequent and getting just plain hotter. One…

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Stalled Monsoon Behind Devastating Floods In NE India, B’desh

The first half of 2022 has seen South Asia hit by both severe heatwaves and heavy flooding. The latest flashpoints…

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Can Planting Trees Mitigate Climate Change?

As the world is struggling to combat climate change, one idea – planting trees – seems to be taking hold…

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Climate Change, Poor Planning Behind Assam’s Mounting Flood Ferocity

Every year, around this time, life comes to a complete standstill in Assam, pounded by relentless rain and subsequent landslides…

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Heatwaves Threaten SA’s Women Farmers

Sitting in a semi-circle in the yard outside of a village school in Nepal, a group of farmers share their…

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Floods In Assam Lead To Massive Destruction, Cripple Life

On the edge of the National Highway 31 in Assam, where floodwater had completely submerged the paddy fields, 43-year-old Rahisuddin…

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Bonn Climate Talks End In ‘Empty Pages’

"Kicking the can", “pointing fingers”, and “divorced from climate impacts” were descriptions used by observers to describe progress at the…

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Recording Mangrove Damage From Cyclones In The Sundarbans

Satellite images of the Sundarbans mangroves along the Bay of Bengal, that capture changes before and after tropical cyclones, are…

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Climate Change: How Myanmar’s Military Rule Makes It More Vulnerable

Myanmar is one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries. It is highly exposed to extreme weather such as cyclones, flooding…

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Eating Local To Tackle The Climate Crisis

The desire by people in richer countries for a diverse range of out-of-season produce imported from overseas is driving up…

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Floods: Millions Marooned In India, B’desh

Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5…

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How Will We Live With Limited Freshwater?

The best of traditional and modern approaches can support each other to avoid droughts becoming disasters. Human-caused climate change seems…

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Can Carbon Markets Help Halt Climate Change?

Putting a price on carbon is seen by many as the ultimate solution to compel countries to reduce their heat-trapping…

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Floods Disrupt Monsoon Weddings In Bihar

The monsoon rains had doused the brutal summer heatwave, and the season of fertility and hope had started in north…

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Girls’ Education Is A Climate Solution: Malala

The fight against climate change is also a fight for the right to education of girls, millions of whom lose…

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Walking In The Shadow Of MP’s Massive Floods

Bundelkhand, a region shared by the massive Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, is often in the news…

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Monsoon Rainfall Increases In Kashmir, Raising Flood Fears

The Kashmir valley suffered a devastating flood in September 2014. After an unusually high level of rainfall, the fact that…

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Super Cyclones To Be Much More Devastating In India In Future

Super cyclones, the most intense form of tropical storms, are likely to have a much more devastating impact on people…

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Case For The Overhaul Of Water Mgmt Mindset

Ten major rivers flow down from the Hindu Kush Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau. Their basins cover most of Asia,…

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Twin Crises Of Heat & Floods Expose Neglect

Rains over the weekend brought some relief from a sweltering heatwave to northern India, but temperatures are projected to rise…

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North India Caught In Vicious Cycle Of Forest Fires, Heatwaves

Mohan Negi is worried that respiratory conditions are becoming more common across Chamoli district in Uttarakhand, north India. “At least…

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