This Will All Be Underwater
Roads and Kingdoms July 30, 2014 Khulna, Bangladesh One afternoon three years ago, a tiger attacked Kamal Gazi as he was fishing on a riverbank in the mangrove forests of […]
Category Archives: Water
A riverboat cruise into the mangrove forest of Bangladesh
Boston Globe February 15, 2014 KHULNA, Bangladesh — The riverboat nosed through the narrowing inlet as darkness descended. Inky masses of trees on the riverbank reached out over the water […]
The Low-Lying Country Where Drowning Is the No. 1 Killer of Kids
TheAtlantic.com December 30, 2013 DHAKA, Bangladesh — Water is everywhere in Bangladesh. The South Asian nation squats on one of the world’s largest deltas, and rivers run through this low-lying […]
In Bangladesh, More Shelter From the Storms
New York Times, Fixes July 23, 2013 KHULNA, Bangladesh — In May 2009, Cyclone Aila swept over the southwestern coast of this country and lashed the small village where Rashida […]
Precarious Lives, Rising Threats
New York Times Weekly May 25, 2013 Khulna, Bangladesh On a recent hot spring morning, Israfil Gazi went alone into the Sunderbans, the mangrove forests in southwest Bangladesh, in search […]
Conservation Pays Off for Bangladeshi Factories
International Herald Tribune March 22, 2012 DHAKA, Bangladesh — At the factories of DBL Group, one of the largest Bangladeshi textile and garment makers, tons of fluffy imported cotton are […]
Microhydro Drives Change in Rural Nepal
International Herald Tribune June 20, 2012 BAGLUNG, NEPAL — In Rangkhani, a remote mountain village in western Nepal, a 12- hour walk on steep dirt roads from Baglung, the district’s […]
Liter By Liter, Indians Get Cleaner Water
International Herald Tribune March 22, 2012 In the developing world, providing safe drinking water remains a major infrastructure and public health challenge. In 1990 about 34 percent of Indians lacked […]
Biogas Offers Poor Countries a Cleaner, Safer Fuel
International Herald Tribune October 27, 2011 NEPALGANJ, NEPAL — Here’s an unlikely starting point for clean energy: No toilets, and plenty of dung. In developing countries where domestic animals are […]
Working in the Himalayas to Prevent Disastrous Flooding
International Herald Tribune November 27, 2011 NEW DELHI — With its massive chalk-white face of ice and snow, Thorthormi glacier in northern Bhutan looms high against a bright blue sky, […]
