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Environment

Dubai arrests man for hiding 5.7M pills in sheep intestines

Aug 22, 2017

A newspaper in Dubai is reporting a man has found himself in a legal mess after allegedly trying to smuggling 5.7 million amphetamine pills into the sheikhdom inside sheep intestines

Aug 21, 2017

Australia's tour match in Bangladesh canceled after flooding

Australia's two-day tour match against a Bangladesh XI has been canceled because of concerns over contaminated water following recent flooding at the ground

India wildlife reserve park devastated by monsoon floods

Aug 19, 2017

Officials say rising floodwaters have inundated large parts of a famous wildlife reserve park in northeastern India, killing more than 225 animals and forcing hundreds of other animals to flee

Nepal Prime Minster warns of climate change dangers

Aug 11, 2017

Nepal's Prime Minister says climate change, natural calamities and disasters were posing threats to his country's survival

Yemen's civil war turns country into cholera breeding ground

Aug 10, 2017

Destruction from Yemen's two-year civil war has turned country into incubator for cholera

India's wild energy trends raise doubts over coal's future

Aug 9, 2017

India could be reaching a near-future peak in how much coal it burns for electricity as efficiency, renewable energy trends take hold

7 decades into Indian democracy, a royal palace thrives

Aug 8, 2017

Decades after most Indian royals vanished into history, one princely palace thrives

Study: Just going outdoors could become deadly in South Asia

Aug 3, 2017

Swaths of northern India, southern Pakistan and parts of Bangladesh may become so hot and humid by century's end it will be deadly just being outdoors

Human-wildlife conflict in India: 1 human killed every day

Aug 1, 2017

A deadly conflict is underway between India's growing masses and its wildlife, with data showing that around one person has been killed every day for the past three years by roaming tigers or rampaging elephants

Farmer suicides rise in India as climate warms, study shows