Blog (Water)

To be effective, environmental compensation should transition from retrospective punitive measure to strategic financing tool for ecological recovery
Environment

To be effective, environmental compensation should transition from retrospective punitive measure to strategic financing tool for ecological recovery

Jyoti Verma
6 min read
Positioning environmental compensation as a mechanism for ecosystem restoration, rather than solely as a penalty, is vital for the sustainable rejuvenation of India’s urban rivers
The shack homes of residents in Langa township, near Cape Town, South Africa, were flooded during days of heavy rainfall in June 2022.
Health

When floods hit, the risk of malaria follows: how disaster systems can prepare better

Tiaan de Jager
4 min read
Climate change is intensifying extreme rainfall across the region, reshaping malaria transmission patterns and threatening hard-won gains towards elimination
Before the River Grows Thin
Rivers

Before the River Grows Thin

Surendran T T
1 min read
A poem dedicated to letting the planet’s big and small bodies of water live
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