Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by SARKAR Saurav
Workers in South and Southeast Asia are facing challenges from the coronavirus and their governments’ responses to the crisis like job loss, being robbed of wages, and lack of control over when and how they work in a time of social distancing. Here’s a round-up.
Tens of thousands of tea (...)
, by ADHIKARI Jagannath
Devastating floods in Nepal have sparked regional tension, with Nepali politicians and media outlets claiming that Indian infrastructure along their shared border has left Nepal vulnerable . But relations between the two countries remain strained, and many in Nepal still resent India for a (...)
, by CHUNG Christine, DELAGE François, MURPHY Brad, YE Hua
Climate change is already delivering more extremes of wet and dry to the Pacific region.
Global warming has already increased the risk of major disruptions to Pacific rainfall, according to our research published today in Nature Communications. The risk will continue to rise over coming (...)
, by BIDWAI Praful
It is humanly impossible not to be moved by the magnitude and quality of the humanitarian disaster that has visited Nepal and the adjoining regions of India and Bangladesh as a result of the April 25 earthquake of magnitude 7.9. The death toll has already crossed 5,000. The entire world, and (...)
, by BERTHELSEN John
Although nobody knows how strong or long it will last, Asia’s weather will change
Thousands of meters into the atmosphere, the great trade winds over Southeast Asia are starting to slow, as they have done 14 times in the last century. The oceans surrounding Indonesia, Malaysia, the (...)
, by HEILPRIN John, TRAN Tini
A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns and threatening health and food supplies, the UN reported.
The huge smog-like plumes, caused (...)
, by SAMY L. A.
Tsunami is also capable of generating black humour. The joke that was making its rounds in Sri Lanka after the natural calamity struck its coastal areas: Some concerned scientists from abroad, after learning of the massive undersea earthquake near Sumatra, wanted to warn the Sri Lankan (...)
, by UNGPAKORN Giles Ji
Natural disasters, such as violent storms, earthquakes and tsunamis may have natural causes, but the effects are never just the results of natural accidents. The effects of nature on human society are determined by class society and the priorities given to ordinary peoples lives, both in the (...)
Forest fires in Indonesia have blanketed Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Southern Thailand and the Southern Philippines in thick smoke blocking out the sun and choking tens of millions of people.
Within South-east Asia it’s called the ‘haze’ – an innocuous word which deliberately plays down the (...)
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