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Governments leading world to disastrous warming: UN0
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- December 1, 2018
Not enough governments are on track to cut carbon emissions, but private sector could be the saviour if coal, oil and gas subsidies are removed, UN Environment suggests Countries are not switching away from coal fast enough to be effective [image by: Andrew / Flickr] Governments will not be able to uphold the Paris Climate
READ MOREHighway project poses grave danger to Himalayas: a multimedia report0
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- October 28, 2018
Highway project poses grave danger to Himalayas: a multimedia report The Char Dham highway project to connect four Hindu shrines has become contentious, with local residents and environmentalists saying that it endangers the fragile mountain ecosystem Hridayesh Joshi, October 25, 201 Suraj Singh Ramola stared at his ruined farmland at the gateway to four important
READ MOREDrought in Afghanistan hits food supply0
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- October 22, 2018
Satellite imagery makes it clear that snow and rainfall have been exceedingly sparse in parts of the world, including Afghanistan, and this is leading to drought and displacement Kasha Patel, October 17, 2018 Food production is influenced by myriad conditions: Weather that is too dry, too wet, too hot, or too cool can severely affect
READ MOREIndia, Bangladesh and three dying rivers0
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- October 22, 2018
Dam building and pollution have turned these transboundary rivers into dirty sludge, unable to sustain life Fisherman Gurudayal Haldar says rampant pollution in the Atreyee River has cause a drastic fall in catch (All photos by Gurvinder Singh) Gurvinder Singh, October 19, 2018 Gurudayal Haldar, 62, has been a fisherman for the past five decades
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Rising sea swamps island along Bengal coast0
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- August 10, 2018
Joydeep Gupta, Monday January 15th, 2018 Around 1.5 million people will be displaced in the Sundarbans, and the process has started Standing atop an 18-foot embankment, Badruddin Sarkar pointed to his previous home, engulfed by a rising sea (top). That was in 2009. In December 2017, Abdul Hanan showed the saline wasteland left behind (bottom)
READ MOREBangladesh: The disappearing wetlands of Dhaka0
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- August 10, 2018
Uncontrolled and unplanned growth has meant that more than 75% of Dhaka’s wetlands have disappeared since 1967, leaving a hotter, far more miserable, city As Dhaka expands, wetlands are illegally taken over in its suburbs [image by: Sheikh Enam] Pinaki Roy, Tuesday March 13th, 2018 Shaheen Mollah recalls that, when he was a child, goods-carrying
READ MORERapid industrialisation poses pollution risk to the Sundarbans0
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- March 29, 2018
The increasing number of heavily polluting factories producing petrochemicals, cement, and leather on the edge of the Sundarbans, as well as new thermal power plants, threatens the mangrove ecosystem The rejuvenated Mongla port is expanding very rapidly [image by: Soumya Sarkar] Soumya Sarkar, March 16, 2018 Mongla port is a hive of activity. Several oceangoing
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