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Lines on water cannot save Bay of Bengal fisheries0
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- May 26, 2020
Countries along the Bay of Bengal have finalised their EEZs, but in the absence of active cooperation, fishers continue to be jailed in other countries while overfishing continues Fishing in Bangladesh’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the Bay of Bengal [image by: Mohammad Arju] Mohammad Arju, May 15, 2020 Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar have agreed
READ MORESAARC faces the pandemic; together?0
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- April 29, 2020
The outbreak shines a spotlight on the dysfunctional state of cooperation in South Asia, but also provides an opportunity to fix the situation Zofeen T. Ebrahim spoke to Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, a member of the Pakistani Prime Minister’s health task force Zulfiqar A. Bhutta April 13, 2020 More than two months after the World Health
READ MORE‘Are we animals?’: Migrants bear brunt of South Asia’s lockdown0
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- April 29, 2020
Migrant workers in India, Pakistan and Nepal are crushed by poverty as earnings come to an abrupt halt in the lockdown forced by the Covid-19 pandemic (नेपाली) सीमित रोजगारीका अवसरहरूका कारण दक्षिण एसियाभर लाखौँ मानिसहरू यस्ता काम गर्न बाध्य छन् जसमा आफ्नो श्रम बाहेक बेच्ने कुरा अरू केही हुँदैन । (फोटोः सुचिता दास, फ्रिडम हाउस,
READ MOREIndia: Women are easy targets in citizenship documentation campaign0
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- March 17, 2020
Poor women are being held in Assam’s detention camps because the authorities have rejected the documents they showed to prove Indian citizenship – this also has an adverse impact on sustainable management of rivers and on regional cooperation Vidya Krishnan, March 5, 2020 In 2013 India began a formal process of updating its National Register
READ MOREBangladesh to declare water emergency in northwest0
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- March 17, 2020
Authorities hope to force farmers to shift away from growing water guzzling rice in a race to save depleting water tables Farmer drying rice in Rajshahi division, Bangladesh (Keren Su/China Span/Alamy) Abu Siddique, March 10, 2020 www.thethirdpole.net The Bangladesh government is about to declare a “state of water emergency” in the drought prone Barind
READ MOREHimalayan hydro developers wilfully ignore climate risks0
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- March 11, 2019
Despite growing climate threats, politicians and developers are ignoring geological and environmental risks in a rush to make short-term profits Lower Subansiri dam construction site Beth Walker, March 4, 2019 With growing warnings of the cascading impacts of climate change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas, the region’s hydropower sector ought to take note. Melting snow
READ MOREProtests bring CPEC’s Kashmir dam to a halt0
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- March 10, 2019
Belt and Road As protests halt a major Chinese hydropower dam in Kashmir, Pakistani experts emphasise the need to move to solar and wind sources to generate energy Fears of river diversion have led to protests against a Chinese funded hydropower project in Kashmir [image by: Ghulam Rasool] Zofeen T. Ebrahim, March 7, 2019 The
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Silt, a blessing or a misery for Bangladesh?0
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- January 19, 2019
Farming in the delta depends on silt, which is being blocked by dams in other countries upstream Silt has built up the land in Bangladesh, but upstream dams now limit the silt that comes in, and the silt that is there, hampers river navigation and leads to flooding [image by: Masul Al Mamun] Rafiqul Islam,
READ MOREFaith to reality: A journey down the Karnali River from Tibet to India0
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- January 19, 2019
thethirdpole.net’s Nepal Editor Ramesh Bhushal and photographer Nabin Baral travelled from the source of the Karnali in Tibet, through Nepal to its confluence with the Ganga in India Mansarovar lake (God’s Lake) south of Mount Kailash Tibet, China [image by: Nabin Baral] Ramesh Bhushal, January 7, 2019 Introduction Mount Kailash in southwestern Tibet is the source
READ MOREGovernments 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
READ MORERising 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)
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