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Meenakshi J

Meenakshi J

SCMP Contributor
Meenakshi J is an independent journalist based out of Shillong, India, and an alumna of East West Center, Hawaii. She covers community health, people, climate, solutions, gender, food science and travel. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Nature Medicine, National Geographic, The British Medical Journal, Smithsonian, Hakai Magazine, BBC, The Guardian, Nikkei Asia, among many others.
Meenakshi J is an independent journalist based out of Shillong, India, and an alumna of East West Center, Hawaii. She covers community health, people, climate, solutions, gender, food science and travel. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Nature Medicine, National Geographic, The British Medical Journal, Smithsonian, Hakai Magazine, BBC, The Guardian, Nikkei Asia, among many others.
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Preserving India’s ancient Meghalaya caves amid climate change, mining threats

Local tribes have found an economic lifeline through cave tourism, but the fragile ecosystems are threatened by illegal mining and climate change.

Nepal’s twin flood disasters in 2021 are examples of the havoc that climate change will increasingly wreak and highlight the need for early warning systems.

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