Tribune Paskistan: The government knew the floods would be back. It had at least eight months to prepare for it. But its focus lay elsewhere — cutting deals, juggling power, privatising public assets. No greater callousness could have been exhibited than that towards the fate of the abandoned four million flood victims who never received

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Forbes: 500 Million People Will Be Displaced By Glaciers Melting In Greenland And The Himalayas The Greenland glaciers are very nearly melted altogether, reports Robert Purves, an Australian environmental consultant and board member of World Wildlife Fund Intl., whom I met last week in Lake Louise, Alberta, one of the wonders of the world and

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TelegraphNepal: It is rightly said that hunger anywhere threatens peace everywhere. In this context, poverty and deprivation is among the primary causes of conflict and violence in a society. Most conflicts have multiple drivers, but poverty is among the most pervasive factors. The havens of terror often appear when the government in a country fails

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Alertnet: In the days of yore, farmers forecast the weather by looking at the behaviour of birds. “When sparrows bathe in the dust, it rains,” they would say. But as climate change alters weather patterns in northeast India, it is changing traditional knowledge – and threatening local birds that long have helped farmers control pests

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BhutanToday: The Earth should be respected. Nature cannot be exploited at the rate it is currently being done. Climate change is a realty that should be mitigated. Everyone should know this, especially students, who are the future of the country. These were the messages Excited conveyed through a participatory approach as students of Lungtenzampa Middle

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Guardian: Those deciding how to best use money for climate mitigation in poor countries can learn from 50 years of debate on aid effectiveness. But some new rules are also needed Most commentators agree that the additional funding developing countries need to respond to climate change will require a major flow of finance from richer

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Noreen Haider: It was an amazing sight for me as I reached Kasur District on the Indo Pak border.  After fifteen years the gorgeous River Sutlej had returned, full force, to run in its native course with around eighty thousands cusecs of water flowing in its bed. For most people in Kasur this Sutlej was

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