Cities
Kolkata India’s air pollution capital
Jayanta Basu Vehicular pollution, particularly from diesel cars and trucks, are primarily responsible for the worsening air quality in Kolkata, which is emerging as […]
Category: Environment
Biodiversity
Draining peatlands leads to greenhouse laughing gas emissions, study shows
Julie Mollins Drained peatlands lead to the significant release of nitrous oxide — a greenhouse gas also known colloquially as laughing gas — leading […]
Environment
Watch: How an Indian professor is turning plastic trash into highways
Todd Reubold Plastic pollution is one of the greatest challenges facing the world. Just last week scientists writing in the journal Scientific Reports announced […]
Biodiversity
Barren hills bring Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshis into conflict
Pinaki Roy The impact of hundreds and thousands of Rohingya refugees have been devastating to the forest cover and water availability in Cox’s Bazar, […]
Cities
Informal Cities and Climate Resilience: building an inclusive approach
Informal settlements in cities of the developing world fare very poor under the ‘risk reducing’ infrastructure parameters of the IPCC. Climate change has brought […]
Disasters
For One Father And Son In Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria’s Cloud Has Not Lifted
Sarah Varney Inside a darkened bedroom, the elder Martinez, a 67-year-old former star pitcher in the local baseball league, spoons rice and sausage into […]
Sustainable Business
Sand Stories: An upcoming publication on the sand crisis
We have unwittingly built ourselves a society that is highly dependent on the consumption of sand in order to maintain a high standard of […]
Aid
Integrated finance for climate and poverty vulnerability
The ultimate successes and failures of climate finance will have diverse consequences for populations living in poverty Climate change induced risks are undermining efforts […]
Environment
China’s ministries revamped for “ecological civilisation”
Ma Tianjie and Liu Qin Two new cabinet level ministries will be tasked with managing natural resources and fighting pollution China’s growth story has been an […]
Environment
Why every day should be World Water Day
Carolyn Johns Most Canadians think of World Water Day as just another international event on the calendar — when water becomes newsworthy for one […]
Data & Reports
Disasters causing billions in agricultural losses, with drought leading the way
Asia hardest hit region, says report on the burden borne by poor farmers due to natural disasters Natural disasters are costing farmers in the […]
Data & Reports
Fracking: Scientific Evidence points towards public health crisis
Health professional groups raise alarm that build-out of drilling and fracking operations is creating a public health crisis. As incontrovertible evidence of harm from […]
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