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Environment
How to Fix Mongolia’s Mining Industry
By Bolormaa Purevjav
Stakeholders’ engagement is key in ensuring mining benefits Mongolian communities and society.
Smoke and Heat: Breaking Records in Southeast Asia
By Luke Hunt
The long-range forecasts paint a bleak, hot outlook, with suffocating heat and smoky air across Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.
Choked: Where Is New Delhi’s Response to Air Pollution?
By Aditya Srinivasan
Each year, Delhi spends the winter choked in dangerous smog. So why is the scale of the problem not matched by a desperate, crisis-mode policy response?
As Tiger Count Grows, India’s Indigenous Demand Land Rights
By Sibi Arasu
Conservation strategies, deeply influenced by American environmentalism, are uprooting communities that had lived in the forests for millennia.
Land Grabs and the Cost of Mining in Mongolia
By Elena Gordillo
Considerations about local people’s well-being should be at the forefront of all ongoing and new mining project developments.
India’s Push for 24/7 Clean Energy From Dams Upends Lives
By Aniruddha Ghosal and Ashwini Bhatia
Its dam-building spree in pursuit of hydropower has led to the displacement of people, deforestation and disasters in the Himalayan region.
Glacial Melt is Dispossessing Nepal’s Indigenous Communities
By Tulsi Rauniyar
Shrinking glaciers are forcing residents to flee, leaving a scattering of ghost towns across the country's unforgiving north.
Why Investing in Water Storage Matters in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert
By Bolormaa Purevjav
The country's livestock and mining sectors depend on water. What can Ulaanbaatar do to ensure both have the access they need for decades to come?
Mining, Oil Spill, Military Bases Threaten Philippine Islands
By Mong Palatino
News about anti-mining protests and a massive oil spill reflects the rising concern about the rapid destruction of island ecosystems across the Philippines.
China’s Wild Spaces Have a Major Garbage Problem. Tech May Be the Solution.
By Matthew Bossons
The pandemic has pushed people globally to reconnect with nature, and in China, that has unfortunately resulted in an epidemic of litter in the nation’s wild spaces. But there are reasons for optimism.
Yes, China Can Quit Coal. Here’s How.
By Seaver Wang and Lauri Myllyvirta
China must begin to challenge its coal dependence, starting by dismantling particularly inefficient policies that have encouraged new coal construction.
Do Adani’s Woes Matter for India’s Clean Energy Transition?
By Sibi Arasu and Aniruddha Ghosal
Adani is still working on existing renewables projects but not those in the pipeline.