Environment
Southasia Climate Events Tracker
Mapping the impact of the climate crisis across Southasia
The Editors | Jan 13, 2023
Why Southasia’s air is cleaner this Earth Day
Environmental gains for Southasia need not end when factories reopen.
The Editors | Apr 22, 2020
When comprehensive means cosmetic
India's pollution metrics fail to capture the complex reality of environmental degradation.
Aritra Bhattacharya | Mar 25, 2020
Regulator and regulated breaching the law in Odisha
The aftermath of an industrial accident at a Vedanta coal power plant.
Cheryl Colopy | Feb 01, 2019
The waiting game in Kodagu
On the August 2018 floods that devastated the coffee country in Karnataka.
Deepa Bhasthi | Oct 19, 2018
Change and dispossession
Lack of data prevents a planned response to climate change in the Karnali river basin.
Slok Gyawali | Aug 12, 2016
Langtang the terrible, Langtang the beautiful
Hope springs eternal on this trail.
Rabi Thapa | Jun 25, 2016
Roads to riches
With natural resources at the country’s hilly edges and infrastructure spreading from the central plains, Myanmar eyes a federal bargain.
Mari Michener Oye | Jun 10, 2016
Latest Articles
How Southasia and Oman intertwined
In ‘Sovereigns of the Sea’, the histories of Omani sultans in the age of empire speak to the interconnectedness of Southasia, West Asia and East Africa
G20 summit in Delhi, new allegations on the Easter Sunday bombings, the return of Nawaz Sharif and more
September 2023 - Updates and analysis from around the region
Crisis in India’s bread basket
How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity
Images of the two Punjabs, partitioned yet forever alike
A photographer’s journey through the Punjab in India and Pakistan shows a land and a people still tied together, despite Partition and the militarised border in between
