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Agreement for former Utah prison site is with Innovation Point Partners comprised of Dallas-based Lincoln Property Company and local partners Colmena and Wadsworth Development Group.

With 800,000 people living less than 15 kilometers from a glacier, Pakistan is one of the most vulnerable nations in the world to glacial lake floods. A project funded by the United Nations aims to assist populations downstream of melting glaciers.

Under increasing climate pressures in Northeast India, monks and monasteries safeguard local lakes and forests.

Community meetings on food hub to be held

Melting glaciers are an “unprecedented challenge for humanity,” French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday, as he launched a call for nations to work together on slashing planet-warming emissions, protecting the environment and collaborating on scientific research into the Earth's icy ecosystems. Such a united effort is desperately needed, even though the war in Ukraine and the latest Israel-Hamas war are taking away much of the international focus and hamper global unity and coope...

News and analytical articles about Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Climate change is now one of the main causes of global hunger. It is not hard to see why. If you are an African farmer who relies on rain to irrigate your crops, for example, you’re in good company since 95 percent of agricultural land in sub-Saharan Africa is rain-fed. If climate change affects your local weather patterns, then your crops may wither and die due to drought.  Alternatively, a warming planet may mean that next harvest season swarms of flying insects will appear—insects you’...

Experts say glacial lake outburst flood risks are set to rise.

Experts say glacial lake outburst flood risks are set to rise.

Air force helicopters rescued scores of stranded tourists Monday in India’s Himalayan northeast after a 6-year-old hydroelectric dam cracked open last week in intense rain, flooding a valley with glacial lake water and killing at least 74 people.