Asian Geographic AG 01/2020 - 140 | Page 5

The Water issue Features PHOTO: DONELL GUMIRAN, FINALIST OF IMAGES OF ASIA 2018 FEATURE: managing waters 30 Sustainable Management of Oceans and Coastal Environment Oceans provide humanity with many goods and services. However, the marine environment is under severe stress from multiple anthropogenic pressures that are acting together in unexpected ways. PHOTO: CARL-BERND KAEHLIG FEATURE: Volcanic Water 88 Hikes Before the Volcano Strikes:Facing Volcanic Waters Volcanoes are typically associated with the colours black for cold lava and white for steam rising from craters. But some volcanic places have an abundance of rainbow colours. BY CARL-BERND KAEHLIG BY DR JAI ACHARYA FEATURE: The water people 72 The Ultimate Liberation: Death in Varanasi Varanasi is a city of contrasts. Death and life, asceticism and hedonism, learning and ignorance – all exist side by side here. BY AMARDEEP SINGH TOP LEFT Portrait of a lady in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India AsianGeo @asiangeographic INDIA NO.139 ISSUE 6 (2019/2020) TOP RIGHT Dead trees on Mount Papandayan, West Java, Indonesia @asiangeographic ERRATUM We’d like to apologise for the error in the map of India in Issue 139.