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Labourers search for precious stones in shallow pit mines in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh state. Photo by Gagan Nayar / AFP)

India, South Asia

Mining in India’s Bundelkhand causes drought and destruction

by Inder SIngh Bisht November 7, 2018February 18, 2020

Dubai Marina in sunset light in the desert. Photo: iStock

Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Turkey, World

Climate change will make life in the Gulf impossible

by Jonathan Gornall November 6, 2018November 6, 2018

Jair Bolsonaro. Photo: Wikipedia

Australia, Oceania, United Kingdom, World

Bolsonaro of Brazil: Slayer of the Amazon

by Vijay Prashad October 31, 2018

From left: Hua-hei, the first mate of the Duk Ling; Gloria Lai, of WWF; Ngau-gor, captain of the Duk Ling. Photo: Sinclair Communications

AT Finance, China, Hong Kong, South Asia, World

Reclamation plan ‘puts Hong Kong’s seafood supply at risk’

by Kamaran Malik October 18, 2018February 18, 2020

Photo of a place flooded. Overflow. Photo: iStock

AT Finance, Bangladesh, India, Iraq, Middle East, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, World

Coastal communities will be the next casualties of war

by Bahauddin Foizee October 17, 2018October 17, 2018

Filipino activist Joan Carling has won the UN's highest environmental award. Photo: Twitter

AT Finance, India, Middle East, Philippines, South Asia, World

Filipina ‘terrorist’ given UN’s highest environmental award

by Asia Times staff September 30, 2018February 18, 2020

A truck transports logs near Kalaw in Shan State. Myanmar has one of the highest rates of forest depletion in the world. Photo: Aurimages/AFP.

AT Finance, Australia, European Union, Myanmar, Oceania, World

Myanmar timber deal slammed for ‘lack of transparency’

by Mongabay September 29, 2018February 18, 2020

A coal fired electric generation plant in China. Photo: iStock/Getty Images

AT Finance, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Japan, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Vietnam, World

Banks need to follow StanChart’s lead and end new coal finance

by Nguy Thi Khanh September 28, 2018

This aerial photo taken in March shows a protected area of the Rawa Singkil wildlife reserve in South Aceh being burnt in prior to the opening of a new palm oil plantation. Green groups say it drives deforestation, with huge swathes of forest logged in recent decades. Photo: AFP / Januar

AT Finance, China, European Union, France, Greater Bay Area, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Asia, World

Hesitant praise for three-year ban on new oil palm licences

by Asia Times staff September 23, 2018February 18, 2020

Devotees dry their clothes after taking a holy dip on the banks of river Ganges in Rishikesh in June. Photo: AFP / Sajjad Hussain

Bangladesh, China, Greater Bay Area, India, South Asia, World

As India’s Ganga runs out of water, a potential food shortage looms

by Sahana Ghosh September 22, 2018February 18, 2020

A coal fired electric generation plant in China. Photo: iStock/Getty Images

AT Finance, Australia, European Union, Indonesia, Oceania, World

Rich countries must not be allowed to buy the right to keep polluting

by Meena Raman September 7, 2018

Abu Dhabi. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

AT Finance, Philippines

Filipino gets restaurant to reduce plastic waste

by Asia Times staff August 31, 2018February 18, 2020

An aerial view of the flood in Attapeu province in southern Laos two days after the Xe-Pian Xe-Nam Noy dam collapsed on July 23. The government says just 40 died, but monitors say many hundreds were likely killed. Photo: AFP/ Mime Phoumsavanh

AT Finance, China, Hong Kong, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam

Civil society groups to boycott Prior Consultation on new Mekong dam

by Maureen Harris August 27, 2018

Children standing near the wooden boat on cracked earth. Metaphor for Global warming and Climate change. Photo: iStock

European Union, Iraq, Middle East, Russia, Syria, World

Reality denial in the Anthropocene epoch

by David Simmons August 23, 2018

Indian Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation Nitin Gadkari. Photo: Milind Shelte/India Today Group

India, South Asia, World

Indian minister’s fishy plan to outsmart environment policies

by Nihar Gokhale August 23, 2018

Volunteers and rescue personnel evacuate local residents in an Indian Navy boat from a residential area in Aluva, Kerala, on August 17, 2018. Photo: AFP, Times of India/ RK Sreejith.

India, Iran, Middle East, South Asia, World

Kerala flood disaster ‘made worse by bad development’

by Rejimon Kuttappan August 22, 2018February 18, 2020

Pakistan is on the verge of an ecological disaster if authorities do not urgently address looming water shortages, experts say. Photo: AFP/Asif Hassan

Australia, Egypt, India, Middle East, Oceania, Pakistan, South Asia, World

Pakistan facing crisis as water shortage worsens

by FM Shakil August 16, 2018February 18, 2020

Plastic waste on the edge of a beach on the Freedom island critical habitat and ecotourism area near Manila. Photo: AFP/Noel Celis

AT Finance, China, European Union, Indonesia, Malaysia, Middle East, Philippines, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Western-made plastic trash is killing Asia’s oceans

by Bong S Sarmiento August 12, 2018February 18, 2020

A worker amid a pile of logs at a holding area along the Yangon river in Yangon on July 23, 2015. Photo: AFP PHOTO / Ye Aung THU

AT Finance, China, Malaysia, Myanmar, South Asia, Thailand

Myanmar overhauls forestry body amid surge in illegal logging

by Bertil Lintner August 4, 2018February 18, 2020

Thailand's Western Forest complex, made up of 19 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries, is one of the largest protected areas in Southeast Asia. But WWF warns that these areas are at risk if countries in the Greater Mekong region don't work harder to protect them. Photo: WWF/ Adam Oswell

AT Finance, Cambodia, China, Laos, Middle East, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Mekong region faces even greater forest losses, WWF warns

by Asia Times staff July 22, 2018February 18, 2020

Indian rescue workers and police look for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed house after flash floods in Thatri village in Doda district, 150 kilometers northeast of Jammu, on July 20, 2017. Photo: AFP

India, South Asia, World

Unregulated growth threatens sensitive Kashmir ecosystem

by Kanchan Srivastava July 21, 2018February 18, 2020

A large saltwater crocodile captured in Australia. Photo: AFP

Australia, Oceania, World

Climate change is a quiet killer in Australia

by Alan Boyd July 10, 2018February 18, 2020

Men from India's Erikala tribe unload bamboo from the Nalamalla forest, at their hamlet at Lingala Mandal in Mahbubnagar district in Andhra Pradesh. The Erikala tribals earn their livelihood mainly by making bamboo products. Photo: AFP

AT Finance, Beijing, Cambodia, China, Laos, South Asia, World

Why bamboo isn’t just for pandas

by Alistair Monument June 21, 2018

The Klong Sai Pattana community in Surat Thani, at a meeting in late 2017. Photo: Sutharee Wannasiri, Fortify Rights

AT Finance, Middle East, Thailand, World

The resilience of Thai women land and environment defenders

by Sutharee Wannasiri June 7, 2018June 7, 2018

Indian residents gather to collect drinking water in buckets from an Indian Army water tanker as the city faces water shortage in Shimla, in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh on June 2, 2018. Helicopters doused forest fires raging near the drought-stricken Indian resort of Shimla on May 1 ore police were deployed to guard water tankers in the historic Himalayan town. Shimla's water shortage has been worsening for years but reached crisis point when supplies ran out last month, just as the population of 175,000 started growing by up to 100,000 for the summer season. / AFP PHOTO / -

Bhutan, India, South Asia, World

Going with the flow: Policy gaps behind Shimla water crisis

by Himanshu Thakkar June 4, 2018June 4, 2018

coal miner in the hands of coal background. Photo: iStock

AT Finance, China, European Union, India, Japan, Middle East, Northeast Asia, South Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, World

Wasted energy: Japan Trumps US on coal

by Tim Buckley June 4, 2018

A view of Mumbai's iconic salt pans in Maharashtra state. The BJP now wants to build homes on them. Photo: Kanchan Srivastava

India, Middle East, South Asia

Mumbai to lose its salt pans to Modi’s affordable housing scheme

by Kanchan Srivastava May 30, 2018February 18, 2020

Freshwater turtles. Photo: Aravind Chaturvedi

AT Finance, Bangladesh, China, European Union, India, Middle East, South Asia, World

Poachers push India’s freshwater turtles to the brink of extinction

by Inder SIngh Bisht May 2, 2018February 18, 2020

A Royal Bengal Tiger rests under a mangrove tree in Sundarbans National Park. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Jayne Stockdale

Bangladesh, India, South Asia, World

Capsize of coal barges in Sundarbans rings alarm on Rampal plant

by Faisal Mahmud April 24, 2018February 18, 2020

Ships washed ashore when Typhoon Haiyan tore through the eastern and central Philippines in 2013. Photo: Frank May

AT Finance, Australia, China, India, Iran, Kuwait, Middle East, New Zealand, Oceania, Pakistan, Philippines, South Asia

Climate change litigation in Philippines a game-changer?

by Alan Boyd April 13, 2018February 18, 2020