UNCCD COP14: Desertification, land degradation hit poor hardest

Climate change drives migration but many can’t even move out: Report 

MDG final report highlights the success of strategic intervention

Human society has achieved several milestones on all eight goals: Report

Bird considered extinct rediscovered in Myanmar

Jerdon’s Babbler rediscovered in country after 73 years

A better option

Asian policymakers need to invest in environmental infrastructure to arrest ecodegradation

Null and void

Environmental degradation in Asia could impose an onerous burden on its people

Root causes

Factors that contribute to Asia's continuing environmental imbalances

Sullied cities

An entire gamut of environmental disturbances accost most Asian cities

Organic cotton

Bananas in danger

Chinese caves throw light on Asian monsoons

5.9 magnitude earthquake strikes seismically active North Central China, over 100 deaths reported

Severe economic losses less than 1% of China’s gross domestic product expected

Have earthquakes really increased in India due to activation of Almora Fault? Experts weigh in

Increased number of earthquakes in 2023 due to activation of Almora Fault, Union earth sciences minister Kiren Rijiju had told Parliament

Saltwater crocodiles are slowly returning to Bali and Java. Can we learn to live alongside them?

Historically, crocodiles lived throughout the Indonesian archipelago but were killed off in Bali, Lombok and Java 

Want to eat fish tomorrow? Halt climate change, overfishing today

Stocks could drop by a third if no action taken 

COVID-19: Are we prepared for a pandemic?

No. The world has not even made a start

Science & Technology - Briefs

Time for climate lesson

A Nepal school that imparts practical knowledge to farmers

Another dead sea

Trade tactics

Imposing environmental trade sanctions on the South will not help, note experts

Planning for water

Flourishing unaided

The AIDS epidemic shows no sign of abating with five million new cases reported in 2001

Biodiversity Asia

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New theory on central obesity in South Asians