Environment

While Bangladesh was spared the worst, Myanmar’s civil conflict is making it difficult for aid to reach those in need.

For the communities most directly affected by coal mines, their day-to-day reality is far from being green. 

The urban poor living away from the city center are the most likely to suffer under extreme heat – and also the ones most likely to face it.

At least six are dead and more than 700 injured after Cyclone Mocha slammed into Myanmar’s coast.

While indigenous communities are on the frontline of climate change, “these very same Pacific communities are also often fighting to be heard on the issue.”

The Taliban’s plan to upgrade Afghanistan’s water infrastructure is raising tensions with neighboring countries. 

As climate change emerges as a key focus in some of China’s recent diplomatic initiatives, there are opportunities for the U.S. to enhance its own climate diplomacy efforts. 

The Scandinavian countries could help Mongolia address its chronic water security issues, but the impetus will need to come from Ulaanbaatar.

Stakeholders’ engagement is key in ensuring mining benefits Mongolian communities and society.

The long-range forecasts paint a bleak, hot outlook, with suffocating heat and smoky air across Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.

Each year, Delhi spends the winter choked in dangerous smog. So why is the scale of the problem not matched by a desperate, crisis-mode policy response?

Conservation strategies, deeply influenced by American environmentalism, are uprooting communities that had lived in the forests for millennia.