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1.4KOpinionTo Tackle Climate Change, Rethink What You Eat
The way we produce, consume and discard food is no longer sustainable. That much is clear from the newly released UN climate...
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Dealing With Land Degradation Through Organic Farming
A sustained policy push for organic agriculture is key to fighting land degradation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region, said a...
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888Impact
The Costs Of Heightened Conflict In The Himalayas
It has been a month since India cut off communications and implemented a security lockdown in the part of Kashmir it governs....
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527Environment
Hydropower Projects Ruining Lives In The Himalayas
The floods in Assam and Bihar and the cloudburst in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand have all once again underlined the risk of...
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729Books
Impact News India Exclusive : Book Extract , Kargil : The Untold Stories From The War By Rachna Bisht Rawat
Chapter 1 : Unbroken A young officer is tortured to death in enemy custody. His father vows to get the guilty punished....
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As Global Hunger Grows, Easy Solutions Disappear
Last week, alongside the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) which monitors the progress on the global Sustainable Development Goals, UN agencies released the...
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412Environment
G20 Stalls On Fossil Fuel Subsidies
As G20 countries met for the group’s annual summit in Osaka, the dirty secret was that the world’s leading economies were failing...
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377Environment
Nearly A Third Of India’s Land Needs Restoration
India has just declared that it will restore 21 million hectares of degraded land, including wasteland, forest and agricultural land. The government...
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936Environment
First Ever Global Scientific Eating Plan Forgets The World’s Poor
A team of 37 world-leading scientists from 16 countries have just released the world’s first ever scientific eating plan. The “planetary health...
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469Environment
Himalayan Hydro Developers Wilfully Ignore Climate Risks
With growing warnings of the cascading impacts of climate change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas, the region’s hydropower sector ought to take...
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![A Kashmiri man near a Budgam forest shows the degradation caused to forests over the past few decades [image by: Athar Parvaiz]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/degration-e1568189463606.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
![The Karcham Wangtoo hydropower project site at Kinnaur district, Himachal Pradesh , India [Image by: Wikimedia Commons]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Damsite_of_Karcham_Wangtoo_Project_at_Karcham_Kinnaur-1020x680-e1566461114538.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![The Karcham Wangtoo hydropower project site at Kinnaur district, Himachal Pradesh , India [Image by: Wikimedia Commons]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Damsite_of_Karcham_Wangtoo_Project_at_Karcham_Kinnaur-1020x680-e1566461114538.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
![The vast majority of the hungry are still in Asia [image from: SOFI 2019 report]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/World-of-undernourishment-e1563868668355.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![The vast majority of the hungry are still in Asia [image from: SOFI 2019 report]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/World-of-undernourishment-e1563868668355.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
![Countries are not switching away from coal fast enough to be effective [image by: Andrew / Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/fuel-subsidies-e1562746162237.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![Countries are not switching away from coal fast enough to be effective [image by: Andrew / Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/fuel-subsidies-e1562746162237.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
![Degraded land, with parts restored by villagers working with the Watershed Organisation Trust [Image by: WOTR]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Land-restored-by-WOTR-1020x574-e1561625079663.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![Degraded land, with parts restored by villagers working with the Watershed Organisation Trust [Image by: WOTR]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Land-restored-by-WOTR-1020x574-e1561625079663.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
![A local fish market at Koshi Barrage in eastern Nepal. Most of the fish in the market are from Koshi River [image by: Nabin Baral]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/world-poor-e1557224197675.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![A local fish market at Koshi Barrage in eastern Nepal. Most of the fish in the market are from Koshi River [image by: Nabin Baral]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/world-poor-e1557224197675.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
