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Devastating floods in rivers shared by Nepal, India and Bangladesh spur calls for coordinated alerts and response.
Food & Agriculture
Coastal towns in Bangladesh give up shrimp farming for agriculture to combat salinity
The decades-long shrimp aquaculture on Bangladesh’s southwest coast, which negatively impacts the environment in many ways, including creating a freshwater crisis, is now losing its importance as the farmers are gradually inclining toward agriculture again.
Carbon & Climate
Warming fuels cyclones, cloudbursts across Asia
Seas around the Asia Pacific are rapidly warming, fueling cyclones and cloudbursts with moisture, making Asia the region hardest hit by warming-related weather and water events.
Carbon & Climate
Crowd-sourcing data could help Philippines tackle deadly floods
Citizen science could save lives by helping to better predict where floods and other natural disasters will strike.
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Food & Agriculture
India’s milk industry struggles as the climate changes
18 September 2024
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Is it time for China to embrace catastrophe insurance?
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Carbon & Climate
Climate change in the Arctic is a wake-up call for the Global South
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Policy & Finance
Bangladesh unrest brings uncertainty to climate agenda
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Carbon & Climate
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