Yang Yong is an independent geologist who has rafted the Yangtze and studied Yunnan’s major rivers for 30 years. He believes intensive dam building on the Upper Yangtze is partly behind the 6.5 magnitude earthquake…
Tara Adhikari and her two children live just a few metres away from the landslide that devastated the Sindhupalchowk district of Nepal two weeks ago. Close by, the Nepal Army is setting off regular controlled explosions…
The grass is black, the road is black and the cows are black. This is Muli, a mountain valley 4,000 metres up on the Tibetan plateau in China’s north-western Qinghai province. The Datong, Sulei and…
Mike Ives 13.06.2014 Every spring in south-west China, there is an explosion of colour in the Daxue Shan, a mountain range on the eastern Tibetan plateau. As the terrain rises toward the snowy mountain peaks,…
Efforts to wipe out the pika on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau will further damage the fragile grasslands, warn campaigners
Minu Jain 06.05.2014 Less than normal monsoon rains forecast this year are likely to reduce crop yields and affect agriculture-based economies of South Asia
Nayantara Narayanan 06.05.2014 Seven of South Asia’s river deltas, including the Ganga-Brahmaputra, the Krishna and the Indus, are sinking faster than sea-level rise because of dam construction upstream
Nusrat Khan 01.05.2014 A coal-fired power project on the edge of the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, has triggered protests while officials claim it will not harm the fragile ecosystem