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, by ATHAR Mohammad Ebad , BHAN Mona
RISING TEMPERATURES, EXPERTS argue, will cause substantial changes to the trans-Himalayan Indus River System by 2050, and lead to water scarcity, erratic droughts and floods, loss of biodiversity, and deleterious impacts on 300 million people in India and Pakistan who depend on its rivers for (…)
, by FOWLE Alice
Hundreds of thousands of people evacuated while red alerts issued for unrelenting heat across north-western India and Pakistan.
During the early hours of Saturday morning, an area of low pressure over the east-central Bay of Bengal intensified, and has been named Cyclone Remal.
Cyclone (…)
, by KHADKA Navin Singh
Increased rain and melting of snow and ice has made the mountain regions more dangerous, a new study finds
Torrential rains and unabated construction are frequently triggering disasters in India’s Himalayan region.
But an unusual increase in rainfall is making the terrain even more (…)
, by RANDELL Heather, SOUTHARD Emily M L
As crops fail in the rising heat, men are leaving many rural areas for migrant work in cities. Women are left to tend to the farming in increasingly dangerous conditions.
Sitting in a semi-circle in the yard outside of a village school in Nepal, a group of farmers share their concerns about (…)
, by SEN Basav
Indians know they can’t rely on elites to save them from catastrophe. That’s exactly what could make a climate movement there so powerful.
Large parts of my ancestral homeland of India and neighboring Pakistan are facing a severe heatwave, with temperatures soaring to 111 degrees (…)
, by KENNEDY-ASSER Alan Thomas , THOMPSON Vikki
An extreme heatwave in India and Pakistan has left more than a billion people in one of the most densely populated parts of the world facing temperatures well above 40℃. Although this has not broken all-time records for the regions, the hottest part of the year is yet to come.
Though the (…)
, by AARJAN Aranyo
When the climate crisis is referred to as anthropogenic, I tend to think of two related but separate phenomena. On the one hand, there is the increase in greenhouse gas emissions since the Industrial Revolution which has contributed to a rise in global mean temperatures, leading to more extreme (…)
, by YASIR Sameer
Flooding in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar and Nepal has killed scores of people, destroyed homes and structures, drowned entire villages, and forced many to crouch on rooftops hoping for rescue.
When heavy floods started inundating her riverside home last week in the village of (…)
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