🌡️ Crippling heatwaves are sweeping across South and Southeast Asia.

✍️ Joydeep Gupta explores a new report that shows that even on days where there is no official heatwave warning, the threat from heat remains:
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🤝 'Despite the strong ties between West Bengal and Bangladesh, navigating the political landscape remains challenging for both parties. Timing and circumstances are crucial for progress in such agreements.'

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Nainital High Court found the Himalayan state had failed to properly implement the Forest Rights Act of 2006, designed to safeguard the rights of indigenous tribes and other traditional forest dwellers.
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'We’ve been stewards of this land for generations. With CFR, we hope to earn a sustainable living through responsible forest produce collection.'

🌳✊ Upholding forest rights in Uttarakhand’s hillside communities

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In recent years, several cascading disasters have occurred across the Himalayan region.

There is a need for low-cost and scalable early warning systems that bring together insights from satellite data and the experience of locals.

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🤝What will it take for Bangladesh & India to sign transboundary river agreements?

🌊 Bangladesh & India must talk about sharing water on 2 major rivers, Teesta & Ganges. But experts say much depends on political consensus & atmosphere for negotiations:

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'By absorbing much more water, bioengineered slopes can reduce erosion, water logging and damage.'

✍️ Charu Bahri explores how bioengineering saved a Himalayan road from floods:
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As part of a joint series with The Third Pole, Omair Ahmad examines the institutionalized culture of data secrecy in South Asia that is stymieing climate cooperation in the region.

Bioengineering techniques were used to stabilise exposed slopes in Himachal Pradesh as part of a flagship government to provide reliable all-weather connectivity.

How can soil bioengineering help stabilise roads damaged by floods and landslides?

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🌡️ In South Asia, heat stress kills without a heatwave

Sweltering days found to increase mortality in three cities across India.

✍️ Joydeep Gupta reports:
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