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Reporting on transboundary water issues across the Himalayan watershed and sharing South Asia climate stories from parent site @DialogueEarth_ ◆ @thirdpolehindi
Joined November 2010
🎙️ Meet the voices behind The Third Pole Podcast: Episode 4 Auqib Javeed, independent journalist based in Jammu and Kashmir, delves into how conflict and weak governance have taken a toll on Kashmir’s landscapes. 🔗: https://t.co/KPKQ0pCIN8
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🚨 JOB OPPORTUNITY ALERT 🚨 HIRING: South Asia Managing Editor 📍Remote role – South Asia ⌛ Deadline: 3rd November 2025 🔗 : https://t.co/1jvgJdjE5w
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Melting glaciers, polluted rivers and shrinking wetlands are straining Kashmir’s ecosystems. Our latest podcast looks at how instability has worsened the crisis—and why empowering local voices is key to solutions. 🔗: https://t.co/NnYSpVdY3i
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There’s an unexpected flooding threat facing Nepal: glacial lake outbursts. 💬 “In many instances, governments are reluctant to share real-time hydrometeorological and risk data across borders,” says @ICIMOD rep. ✍️ Shalinee Kumari 🔗 Read the story:
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Fast-forming and difficult to detect, small glacial lakes are turning out to be more hazardous than scientists had predicted
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With millions displaced and close to a thousand people dead, Pakistan is fighting to keep its head above the rising floodwaters. Could the damage have been contained? Have the floods been down to bad governance, or a lack of preparedness? 🔗:
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Dialogue Earth speaks to water resource management expert Muhammad Ehsan Leghari on how severe flooding can be better managed even as the country remains vulnerable to it
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“Describing causes of these disasters as cloudbursts or landslides isn’t good enough. What’s needed is an independent assessment of Himalayan disasters to know what happened." I write on why misattributing Himalayan disasters to cloudbursts is dangerous: https://t.co/ZnOXCmIZMT
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Recent flooding in various Himalayan states have been widely attributed to cloudbursts, but experts say the label masks systemic failures
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🧵Are cloudbursts a scapegoat for India’s Himalayan floods? August saw devastating floods in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh & Jammu and Kashmir. Authorities & media were quick to blame 'cloudbursts'. But the rainfall data tells another story. 1/7 https://t.co/ZnOXCmIZMT
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Recent flooding in various Himalayan states have been widely attributed to cloudbursts, but experts say the label masks systemic failures
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In Pakistan, River Ravi has breached its banks, submerging homes and displacing over 1.3 million people. Years ago, when Pakistan announced its Ravi Urban Development project experts raised concerns about flood risks. 🔗 Read story: https://t.co/GeQVUBjkp4 ✍️📷 Alefia T Hussain
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Two years after its inauguration, local farmers and activists dispute the legality of land acquisition for Pakistan’s new city megaproject along the Ravi River
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In July, Nepal’s Rasuwagadhi was hit by a flood. Not from a big glacial lake, but a tiny, newly formed supraglacial lake on Purepu Glacier. Small lakes, once seen as low-risk, are proving more dangerous than expected. Read my latest for @third_pole here: https://t.co/w4cvBFCXY3
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Fast-forming and difficult to detect, small glacial lakes are turning out to be more hazardous than scientists had predicted
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Asia's longest free-flowing river could have been the symbol of regional and continental pride: but the Sawleen is now associated with conflict and unrest. We explore how the competing interests of the countries it spans will shape its future. 🔗:
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We examine Southeast Asia’s largest free-flowing river, as it navigates competing interests between the countries it spans, and discuss Myanmar’s military junta’s role in shaping its future
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In coastal Bangladesh, rising seas have left millions without safe water. Now, solar-powered desalination plants are offering a lifeline, producing 1,000 litres an hour and transforming health for local families. 🔗 https://t.co/nniGkehySu
#ClimateChange #Renewables #Water
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Cheap Chinese panels are powering desalination plants for areas that have long struggled with water shortages
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Pakistan stands at a crossroads. Experts and activists are asking: can Pakistan switch gears from polluting vehicles to electric vehicles and embrace a cleaner and more sustainable future, or will its deep dependency on fossil fuels stand in the way? 🔗:
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The country hopes to increase electric vehicle adoption with its new policy, but a deep dependency on fossil fuels stands in the way, experts say
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Nearly 450 tanneries in Tamil Nadu are discharging 20 million litres of effluent daily, polluting water, damaging farmland, and risking public health. Read our first story in our latest two-part series on the leather industry in India’s Palar River basin: https://t.co/szOjKJXNKx
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Tamil Nadu’s tanneries endanger rivers, agriculture and people, as Supreme Court ruling offers some hope
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Part two of our leather series uncovers the human cost of India’s tanning industry & the disconnect in global supply chain ethics. In Tamil Nadu, workers produce leather for global brands like H&M amid chemical fumes, low pay & less protection. Read here:
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Workers in Tamil Nadu face hazardous conditions amid gaps in European supply-chain due diligence
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Why China's green power certificates are spiking — and what it means for the rest of the world. In March, the price of China’s green power certificates, was changing daily. What caused the spike? Read the full story on story: https://t.co/FDkvc7MsCy ✍️ Xu Nan #China #Renewables
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Energy-intensive businesses now need to green some of their electricity use. Certificates to prove it have shot up in price
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📸🎖️ Dialogue Earth at the 2025 Gabo Awards Victor Moriyama's photo story on Xinã Yurá's initiation as a Yawanawá shaman in Brazil has been nominated for best photography in the 2025 Gabo Awards — Latin America's most prestigious journalism prize. Winners will be announced soon.
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The people most impacted by climate change often don’t hear about it in the languages they speak. In this interview with @CitiesQuestion, I spoke about why climate communication must become more accessible and rooted in local realities. Read here:
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The local impacts, descriptions, and knowledge of climate change rarely make it to the national or global climate discussions. Question of Cities talks to multi-lingual journalists to understand how...
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With water scarcity deepening and population needs rising, tensions are mounting within urban areas and interstate disputes. The water crisis highlights an urgent need for better groundwater governance, which has long been overlooked in policy debates: https://t.co/8y02ZJVlYZ
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The worsening water crisis highlights an urgent need for better groundwater governance in India, writes water law professor Gayathri D. Naik
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Among other things, I also spoke about a climate change glossary I created for @third_pole two years ago, which was born out of the need to simplify complex terms without diluting meaning. Read our evergreen (and evolving) list of climate-related terms: https://t.co/ziB2Rc7sb5
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To help demystify and open up conversations on climate change, The Third Pole has compiled this glossary of key terms, in five languages
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Glaciers have been mourned before. But the tribute to Yala by @icimod stood out, blending spiritual rituals and traditional beliefs with science, as monks and scientists came together to honour a dying glacier. Read @shalineekumari_'s piece: https://t.co/gnI1Ox8tg5
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An unusual meeting of communities gathered to pay tribute to Yala, one of the Hindu Kush Himalayan region’s most-studied and fastest-disappearing glaciers
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