Climate
Watch: Kokoli-Love during climate emergency
Snehasis Das Kokoli recounts the love story of the protagonist by the titular name and her fisherman lover in Nalia Sai slum. The story […]
Category: Disasters
Data & Reports
Urgent action needed to avert antimicrobial resistance crisis
International organizations unite on critical recommendations to combat drug-resistant infections and prevent staggering number of deaths each year UN, international agencies and experts released […]
Climate
Cyclone Idai shows why long-term disaster resilience is so crucial
Channing Arndt, CGIAR System Organization and Claudia Ringler, The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Cyclone Idai struck Beira, the fourth largest city in […]
Aid
Bangladesh Bhola power project tests AIIB promises
Abu Siddique Locals and NGOs say the bank has breached its own standards by failing to provide adequate compensation and ignoring flood risks in […]
Climate
Weathermen: Listen to the fishers, it works
MM Paniyil A new system of marine forecasts is helping fishers in Kerala to better plan their fishing trips in the Arabian Sea, which […]
Climate
Climate Crisis: We only have 12 years to save ourselves, let’s act fast!
The year 2018 can be termed historic in terms of realisation of the ‘catastrophic’ climate crisis we are in. Never in the past had we been warned of...
Biodiversity
Watch: Destruction of the Environment as a Consequence of Overpopulation
As of December 31, 2018, at midnight CET the population on our planet was exactly 8,953,851,418 or almost 9 billion!
Sustainable Business
Fishing village hit by chemical leak in China
Early in the morning of November 4, workers at Donggang Petrochemicals were hosing C9 aromatic solvent onto a tanker at Quanzhou’s port. The hose broke and 69 tonnes...
Climate
How climate change caused the world’s first ever empire to collapse
Vasile Ersek, Northumbria University, Newcastle Akkadia was the world’s first empire. It was established in Mesopotamia around 4,300 years ago after its ruler, Sargon […]
Biodiversity
Bamboo Treatment Plants to Repel Beetles Attacking Bangladesh Refugee Camps
An infestation of “boring beetles” means the bamboo in almost every shelter in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar – home to around 240,000 families – needs...
Disasters
Disaster Flood in the Tigris – Made by a Dam
It is assumed that due to poor maintenance and lack of training of the dam personal the gate of the dam spillway has burst.
Aid
Afghanistan scales up ecosystem-based solutions to help build disaster resilience
Afghanistan is one of the frontline countries taking forward affordable ecosystem-based solutions to reducing disaster risk.