For lightning-prone communities in Bangladesh, new warning system may not be enough

Land Cover Monitoring System for Nepal Launched

The Forest Research and Training Centre (FRTC) is pleased to announce the launch of Nepal’s National Land Cover Monitoring System ...

EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS SAVING LIVES DURING NEPAL’S MONSOON

or days leading up to the disaster, Mr. Harisaran Shrestha had been listening to warnings about floods in the Melamchi, ...

Floods in Pakistan threaten food security, destroy important crops

Pakistan floods threaten food security as critical crops destroyed

Flooding in dozens of districts in Pakistan’s Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab provinces have destroyed wide swaths of agricultural land. The ...

ICIMOD collaborates with NASA to monitor air quality in the Hindu Kush Himalayas

The training will feature multi-satellite blended products, addressing issues like cloud cover, emphasising blending multi-satellite data for wider coverage and ...

Forest cover may have increased but agricultural land is shrinking

While the forest area of Nepal increased by 1.7 percent, the agricultural land shrunk by 2.1 percent with the expansion ...

Floods in Pakistan: On one hand, crop affected by water stagnation, on the other hand water scarcity problem

After floods in many areas of Sindh, Balochistan and southern Punjab, farmers' agricultural lands have not been able to grow ...

Managing seeds and agricultural losses in the wake of extreme climate events: Lessons from Nepal

As climate change-induced disasters surge around the world, it is the people of the least developed countries paying the bulks ...