Liu Hongqiao (LH): Why is water security more important than energy security? Li Junfeng (LJF): China has been suffering from a nationwide shortage of energy and water resources.
Five months ago Narendra Modi swore to clean up the Ganga – India’s most sacred river – during his election campaign for prime minister. In fact, he chose Varanasi as his parliamentary seat, the holy…
New satellite images from NASA show that, for the first time in its recorded history, the largest basin has completely dried up because of over-irrigation.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given the green light to construction of the 3,000 megawatt Dibang hydropower project in the ecologically fragile region of Arunachal Pradesh, north-east India.
Street protests demanding urgent action on climate change have attracted hundreds of thousands of marchers in more than 2,000 locations worldwide.
As Pakistan battles the ferocious waves of its angry rivers, Mirza Asif Baig, chairman of the Indus Water Commission (IWC), argues the destruction of the floods could have been averted if the country had invested…
Pakistan’s chairman of the Indus Water Commission, and the head of the Indian organization that operates the Baglihar dam on the Chenab river, have both debunked reports in a section of the Pakistan media,
Scores of people were feared dead and hundreds of people trapped in India’s Jammu and Kashmir state as incessant rain and windstorms triggered landslides and the worst floods in decades with several rivers in the…
The absence of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping from the informal climate summit convened by the UN Secretary General on September 23 is likely to cast its shadow on formal…
The impacts of climate change will disproportionately affect people living in poverty in poorer countries, notwithstanding their minimal per-capita contributions to greenhouse-gas emissions. It’s here where the damage will be greatest and where people have…