A report on the impact of climate change on the glacier-fed
Indus River and the rising geopolitical tensions between India
and Pakistan. Both countries depend on the river to generate
hydropower and, in Pakistan's case, as a primary water source
for agricultural irrigation. It is part of a series of print,
broadcast, and multimedia reporting sponsored by the Pulitzer
Center on Crisis Reporting on which, Anna-Katarina Gravgaard,
and Bill Wheeler are working. The project looks at water
distribution and the impacts of climate change on hydrology from
the Himalayan glaciers of Nepal to India, Pakistan and
Bangladesh. The Indus River offers us a case study in the
diplomacy needed to counter climate-induced destabilization.
“The Water’s Edge,” first appeared in GOOD Magazine, and was
subsequently republished by The Quietus and The Caravan
magazines. A new framework for reducing carbon emissions takes a
crack at the knottiest dilemma confronting a global climate
solution: how to divvy cuts between rich and poor nati