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Solar for work in Bangladesh

Abu Siddique The government is providing solar power systems as welfare payment in job schemes for the poor For nearly two years now, Bangladesh has been providing solar home systems as part of its welfare programmes targeted at the 40 million citizens who still live below the poverty line. Banglade

Water / 03/21/2017
India Pakistan resume talks on Indus Treaty: Stakes are high

Himanshu Thakkar When on March 20-21, 2017, on the eve of World Water Day, India and Pakistan’s Permanent Indus Commission met in Islamabad for its 113rd meeting, there was a lot at stake besides the immediate issue or even the Indus Treaty. In many ways, the Indus Treaty remains a bright spot in

How a UN platform to stop biodiversity loss could up its game

Maud Borie and Aleksandar Rankovic Biodiversity keeps declining despite lots of accumulated knowledge and numerous international and national commitments to act. How could IPBES help change this? Biodiversity, the variety of plant, animal and microbial life on Earth, is still declining. For many y

Canadian oil company pulls out of uncontacted tribes land in Peru

A Canadian oil company is withdrawing from the territory of several uncontacted tribes in the Amazon where it had been intending to explore for oil. The company, Pacific E&P, had previously been awarded the right to explore for oil in a large area of the Amazon Uncontacted Frontier, an area o

Business , Water / 03/10/2017
Water Restrictions Force Pepsi to Cease Production

PepsiCo has been forced to cease operations at its bottling plant in Kanjikode, in the south Indian state of Kerala because of water shortages A team led by Professor P. S. Panikkar, an eminent social activist and member of the Kanjikode Paristithy Kaval Sangham, a government appointed watchdog grou

Climate , Data & Reports , Water / 03/10/2017
Climate change drives up river salinity in Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta Already facing increasing river salinity due to climate change, parts of coastal Bangladesh could become zones of poverty with limited freshwater available in rivers It has been established by now that coastal Bangladesh is being seriously affected by climate change. It is now imper

A year after Berta Cáceres’ murder, protecting the planet is just as deadly

Robert Soutar Latin America remains the world’s deadliest region in which to defend the environment but those on the frontline of land and resource-related conflicts are continually targeted all over the world by profit from environmentally destructive industries. In recent months activists have

Watch: Seed vault holds key to human survival

Among the most important buildings in the world, the Seed Vault holds the key to human survival: more than 880,000 seed samples, the largest collection in the world. Follow world-renowned scientist Cary Fowler into the heart of the Arctic, where the Svalbard Global Seed Vault lies nestled in the fro

Food , Sustainable Development / 03/03/2017
What we need are farms that support farmers, consumers AND the environment

Andrea Basche and Marcia DeLonge U.S. agriculture has trended for several decades — as a result of policy, economics and other drivers — toward systems that are more simplified over both space and time. This has had adverse consequences for food, energy and water. Editor’s note: This Voices

BBC banned from India’s tiger reserves after “shoot on sight” investigation

The Indian government has reportedly banned the BBC from filming in any tiger reserve nationwide for five years, after its South Asia correspondent investigated “shoot on sight” conservation in the country. Justin Rowlatt investigated the impact of deadly conservation tactics on tribal communiti

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