Rapidly melting glaciers in Gilgit-Baltistan are causing many to fear that the region could be affected by severe flooding. According to a study published last year in the journal Science Advances, climate change is "eating away Himalayan glaciers at a dramatic rate". The danger lies in the glacial lakes that collect water as the glaciers melt, which can burst and cause flash flooding and great...
Rapidly melting glaciers in Gilgit-Baltistan are causing many to fear that the region could be affected by severe flooding. According to a study published last year in the journal Science Advances,...
The World Sindhi Congress (WSC) has strongly condemned the Pakistani Government’s decision to build a Diamer-Bhasha Dam on the Indus River. It is believed that the dam will further increase the already...
Indonesia is bringing coal mining to West Papua despite an independence movement that has contested Jakarta’s claims to the region’s resources for almost 60 years and faced violent repression....
The Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board (CHTDB) is pursuing a project which consists of constructing roads, cutting hills, sectioning an entire village and destroying their graveyards and their ancestral...
More cases of people infected with the COVID-19 Coronavirus have been reported in Ethopia. Among them include two Japanese citizens and one Ethiopian, according to the Ethiopian Ministry of Health. The...
Below is from an article by the Guardian Taiwan has introduced phone-tracking technology to monitor the locations of those under quarantine, which many believe is one of the reasons behind Taiwan’s...
The hearings taking place during the Kiobel v Shell case held in The Hague present a renewed opportunity to hold Shell accountable for its gross human rights abuses in Nigeria. The case will bring to the...
The Tibetan plateau, home to the vast Hindu Kush-Himalaya ice sheet, has long been labeled the world’s “third pole”, due to the vastness of its glaciers. However, according to the most...
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