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Fishers struggle as Gwadar port grows
Twenty years of foreign investment turned a town on Pakistan’s coast into a huge port, which fishers say has made their lives far harder.
Gender inequality sees women labour in poor quality housing despite soaring temperatures, with solutions limited, expensive and inadequate.
Five years after Thailand banned paraquat and chlorpyrifos, farmers and consumers remain unsafe from the overuse of other dangerous agrochemicals.
Nearly 75 per cent of migrants in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, reported being negatively affected by rising temperatures, while 100 per cent reported being affected by extreme weather events.
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Ladakh’s apricot lifeline challenged by a changing climate
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Planned LNG plant sparks water concerns among Thai farmers
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