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Environmental economist Soumya Balasubramanya explains health in Bangladesh could be improved by safely recycling waste.

Bangladesh has done a great job of getting more toilets to more people. Now it needs to figure out how to empty them.

A proposed scheme would spread payments and make waste collection safe and profitable.

New book presents an overview of the challenges facing the critically important Ganges river as a water resource for 500 million people.

The Ganges can be an engine for sustainable development.

In large parts of South Asia, a majority of families pursue a dual livelihood strategy, depending on both farming and migrant wage work.

Fraser Sugden

India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan along with China account for nearly half of the world’s total groundwater use and these regions are expected...

Poor women and vulnerable groups will “bear the brunt” of climate change in parts of Bangladesh, India and Nepal.

New effort to help nurse India’s most sacred river back to health.

Bangladeshi women find profit in new methods of vegetable cultivation and cattle rearing.