South Asia

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Climate-Vulnerable Myanmar Absent From COP28 Negotiations

Justine Chambers and Helene Maria-Kyed 09/12/2023

With the Myanmar military junta excluded from COP28, the...

People fleeing floods in SL

South Asia Needs a Policy Framework to Respond to Climate Migration

Samah Rafiq 10/08/2023

South Asia as a region is one of the...

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India’s Push To Use Sugar for Fuel May Create More Problems Than It Solves

Cheena Kapoor 23/02/2023

India, the world’s second-largest sugar producer, has started to...

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Lesson From Nepal: Decentralisation Alone Won’t Enable a Local Climate Response

Dil B. Khatri, Andrea J. Nightingale, Gyanu Maskey and Hemant Ojha 13/10/2022

After an extensive analysis, researchers in Nepal found that...

Monsoon season in Sehwan

A Child’s Death Highlights Threat Posed to Young by Pakistan’s Floods

Syed Raza Hassan and Asif Shahzad 10/09/2022

More than 1,200 healthcare centres in Sindh province are...

Monsoon season in Sehwan

Women Stranded in Pakistan Floods Take Risky Trips To Give Birth

Syed Raza Hassan 08/09/2022

Some 1.38 lakh women in need of humanitarian assistance...

FILE PHOTO: Hotline operator for a free counselling service answers a phone while wearing a face mask, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Shenyang

‘Like My Insides Were Crying’: China’s COVID Curbs Hit Youth Mental Health

Farah Master and Xiaoyu Yin 31/08/2022

China has employed some of the world's harshest and...