BANGLA BAZAR: For generations Paban Baroi's family guarded a temple to Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction, until Bangladesh's mighty Padma river wreaked havoc of its own, wiping out the ...
“Frequency and extremity of flood events (in Malaysia) have increased in recent decades with projections they could increase with continued global warming,” said the report which was released in 2021. ...
Desertification - where land degrades, becomes arid and loses its fertility - is now affecting more than 76 per cent of Mongolia’s total land territory. Climate change and human activity ...
“In the Gobi, it is difficult to be a herder. No rain, with too many mines. For the last three years, we haven’t had any rainfall and we are just ...
SINGAPORE: In recent weeks, the planet has been lashed by a series of typhoons and hurricanes. Since the end of August, the Atlantic Ocean has seen hurricanes Danielle, Earl and ...
In Pakistan, nearby farms have long been supplied with water from the Indus River in order to expand irrigation systems and support agricultural growth. Over the years, embankments along the ...
QUESTIONS ON ROHINGYA Climate is not the only issue on which Bangladesh sees inaction from the West. Around 750,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh in 2017 after a scorched-earth campaign against ...
BRUSSELS: Young activists rallied for climate action on Friday (Sep 23), staging protests from New Zealand and Japan to Germany and the Democratic Republic of Congo to demand that rich ...
SHANGHAI: The central Chinese province of Jiangxi has declared a water supply "red alert" for the first time after the Poyang freshwater lake, the country's biggest, dwindled to a record ...
The authors of the study however stressed that due to large variations in seasonal monsoon rainfall over Pakistan historically, it was not possible to conclude that manmade warming contributed significantly ...
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