South Asia's Troubled Waters
Irrigation and hydroelectric projects along with shrinking glaciers are reducing the flow of the Indus River--and increasing tensions between Pakistan and India.
Fleeing natural disasters that destroyed their villages, many Bangladeshis have moved to Dhaka's slums, where disease is on the rise.
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Less grass means fewer yaks. What will happen if the glaciers disappear?
“That’s what this conference needs to be about—turning words into real action the day the conference is over."
Muhammud Yusuf tends a muddy, two acre farm in southeast Bangladesh. He's been here for six years, but a few decades ago, this land did not exist. It was underwater.
The climate story of South Asia begins in the Himalayas, home to thousands of rain-fed glaciers that make up the largest body of ice outside the poles.
In South Asia—home to a quarter of the world's population, but only 5% of its freshwater resources— development is taking a heavy toll on life's most basic necessity.
In these slides, Anna-Katarina Gravgaard and Bill Wheeler travel through rural Bangladesh, examining the lives of those intimately impacted by river erosion and rising waters along the low-tide coa
In Dhaka, Banglafesh's capitol on track to become one of the world's biggest cities, hundreds of thousands of people fill in the urban fabric each year.
After his home slipped into the powerful currents of the Meghna River four years ago, Monoranjab Dus came looking for new land along this waterlogged stretch of coastline slowly emerging from the sea...
Zeeshan Khan, a 17-year-old engineering student, says he knows who Pakistanis blame for what has become the largest migration in their country's history.
Thursday, at the World Climate Conference in Geneva, Bangladesh's prime minister called for assistance from the international community to help the country adapt to the impacts of climate change,
Climate change is melting the glaciers of the world's highest mountains, affecting millions downstream.
As the world looks towards the December summit in Copenhagen, the Nepali government, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, DFID and Danish Embassy are arranging their own pre-Copenhagen negotiations
India is making moves to protect its natural resources, instituting an environmental agency modeled after the US' own EPA, according to the
William Wheeler wrote about the potential water conflict brewing between India and Pakistan. Here, in another dispatch, he looks at the question of Kashmir in growing tensions over a limited resource...
Control of the rivers that run through the region has always been a potential source of conflict between India and Pakistan.
A first hand account of the largest internal migration in Pakistan's history.
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Multimedia journalist Anna-Katarina Gravgaard has reported from four different continents with a focus on water and the environment. A print reporter from age 14, she transitioned into multimedia...
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William Wheeler has reported on political affairs from East Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Haiti, and the Middle East. He’s also covered immigrant detention in rural Virginia, and subterranean...
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Ecosystems, Effect of Human Activities on the Earth, Environmental Public Policy, Freshwater Resources, Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources, Role of Water in Natural and Human-Made Environments, Watersheds, U.S. Foreign Policy Since WWII, Impact of the Industrial Revolution, The Political and Social Conditions of Developing Nations, Modern Day Conflicts