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Uzbekistan has both financial and political reasons to pump the brakes, even if Tashkent has no intention of scrapping the project.

Geoengineering pioneers consider ways of preserving glaciers and polar ice, but ethical and technical challenges persist.

Experts and commentators react to developments at COP27 and what lessons can be drawn from this year’s devastating floods

Uttarakhand’s Raini village, which gave birth to the famous environmental movement, is becoming uninhabitable.

Highlights from the CITES CoP19 summit include greater regulation of the shark fin trade and new protections for reptiles collected as pets

Hotter temperatures mean more evaporation. More humidity in the air means more frequent and intense rainfall and cloudbursts – an effect of climate change.

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is technically water-abundant but high groundwater use along with a lack of data, planning and infrastructure is depleting its resources

Millions of people have moved to Mongolia’s cities in the past 30 years where a lack of infrastructure and intense rainfall causes misery in slum districts

COP27, the UN climate summit, ended with very little success except in the creation of a fund for loss and damage