Climate impacts hit 750 million South Asians over 10 years

Joydeep Gupta A new study looks at five major impacts of climate change, the sectors and the people most vulnerable. Almost 750 million people in South Asia were affected by floods, droughts, extreme rainfall, heat waves and sea-level rise — all impacts of climate change or worsened by it — in the first decade of this millennium,… Continue reading Climate impacts hit 750 million South Asians over 10 years

Local level water cooperation flourishes in Central Asia

Bunyod Holmatov & Jonathan Lautze Despite high-level tensions between countries, water cooperation is thriving on the tributaries of the Syr Darya Water has been a major cause of tension for Central Asian countries since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The planting of vast cotton fields and river diversions during the Soviet era shrank the Aral Sea… Continue reading Local level water cooperation flourishes in Central Asia

African Dams linked to over one million malaria cases

Blyde River Dam, South Africa/ Neville Nel/Flickr creatvie commons

Dam projects need to consider better disease control measures Over one million people in sub-Saharan Africa will contract malaria in 2015 because they live near a large dam, according to a new study. For the first time, data was correlated with the location of large dams with incidence of malaria and quantified impacts across the… Continue reading African Dams linked to over one million malaria cases