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Environment
The Indus Waters Treaty: Colonial Legacies, Cold War Geopolitics, and Climate Challenges
By Atal Ahmadzai
For India, the treaty's suspension offers a chance for renegotiation, while Pakistan faces limited options to uphold its current status.
Why Are Tokay Geckos Being Smuggled Out of India’s Northeast?
By Rajeev Bhattacharyya
This lizard species, which is valued for its use in traditional medicine in China and Southeast Asia, can earn a smuggler around $70,000 per lizard.
Through Climate Diplomacy, Nepal Sounds the Alarm on the Himalayas
By Ritesh Panthee
Nepal’s climate vulnerability shapes its climate goals and strategies, with the Sagarmatha Sambad as a rising symbol of Himalayan climate diplomacy.
Water for Peace: What Bangladesh Wants From the Ganga Water Treaty
By Sk Tawfique M Haque
The forthcoming negotiations for renewing the treaty must make water-sharing climate resilient and equitable as well as account for extreme weather conditions.
What Mongolia Can Learn From South Korea’s Waste Management System
By Bolor Lkhaajav and Khaliun Sanchir
South Korea’s zero waste strategy can also provide a solution to solving Mongolia’s growing waste crisis.
Frontline Failure: Pakistan’s Climate Vulnerability and Leadership Gap
By Abdul Waheed Bhutto
Despite being an extremely climate-vulnerable nation, Pakistan remains conspicuously absent from global climate leadership.
India’s Lagging Attempts to Contain Pollution: Bridging the Climate Commitment Gap
By Shanthie Mariet D’Souza
As India’s attempt to represent the Global South in conversations with the Global North on climate change takes center stage, there is a clear need to take action at home.
The Gorge Between China and India on Hydropolitics
By Ruth Gamble and Hongzhang Xu
Miscommunication and misunderstood geography are confounding discussions about China's planned dams on the Yarlung Tsangpo gorge.
Soaring Death Toll Feared in Myanmar as Powerful Earthquakes Strike
By Luke Hunt
Buildings collapsed amid a magnitude 7.7 quake. In neighboring Thailand, Bangkok declared an “emergency zone.”
India’s Energy Transition Needs Focus on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility
By Aishwarya Ramachandran
Energy transition research addressing the range of equity concerns across India’s socio-economic groups and regions is rare. This needs to change.
Guns and Manure: Sri Lanka’s Army and Organic Agriculture
By Upandha Udalagama
In 2021, the Sri Lankan Army became the unlikely vanguard of a supposed green revolution, resulting in a radical redefinition of civil-military relations in farming regions.
Safeguarding Climate Action Amid Political Transitions in Asia
By Betty Wang and Farwa Aamer
Climate action in many Asian nations remains heavily leadership-driven, making it particularly susceptible to disruption.
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