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
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Portrait of a lady in Varanasi,
Uttar Pradesh, India
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INDIA
NO.139 ISSUE 6 (2019/2020)
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Dead trees on Mount Papandayan,
West Java, Indonesia
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ERRATUM
We’d like to apologise for the error in
the map of India in Issue 139.