Eye on the Sun Koshi Landslide: Monitoring and Infrastructure Planning Key to Minimizing Scale of Disasters

In the early hours of 2 August 2014, a landslide occurred above Jure village, about 1.4 km upstream from the Sun Koshi Hydropower project’s intake site. In an instant, a 1.9 km long slope of land perched 1,350 m above the river bed collapsed, burying two dozen houses, taking the lives of at least thirty-three people, and injuring many more. Over 150 people are still missing.

At the top! K2 Expedition ‘Women Climbing for Climate Change’ a Success

First Agri-Flori Expo in Thimpu, Bhutan

ICIMOD honoured at the Esri User Conference

Results of a rapid investigation of the Jure landslide site on 5 August 2014

On 5 August 2014, two experts from ICIMOD joined other teams from the Disaster Preparedness Network-Nepal (DPNET) to conduct a one day field visit to the landslide dam site at Jure for rapid assessment of the landslide, landslide dam, and the newly formed lake.

CAS-ICIMOD Collaboration Project on Carbon Assessment and Ecosystem Management of High Altitude Peatlands Launched

Exploring Possibilities for Scaling Up Allo Products

Signing of MoU between the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (MoSTE) and ICIMOD

HICAP work on ecosystem valuation presented at the Fifth World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists

ICIMOD Researcher Recognized at the GEWEX Conference

Local experts agree on a PES institutional framework