ICIMOD collaborates with Red Cross to develop Prakop Alert to forecast natural disaster

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

An average of four people a week are killed by lightning in Bangladesh, and the problem is expected to get ...

Forest cover may have increased but agricultural land is shrinking

Kathmandu, April 25 -- While the forest area of Nepal increased by 1.7 percent, the agricultural land shrunk by 2.1 ...

Met Office gets storm, lightning forecast tool

Meteorological Department on Wednesday launched its first ever operational system to predict thunderstorms and lightning, about six years after recognizing ...

Monsoon floods devastate commercial crops, cause loss of $1.7 bln in Sindh

A recent by the International Centre for Integrated Mountains Development (ICIMOD) and Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) has revealed that ...

New fire risk system rolled out as forest fires up by 76.7 percent in Nepal

The fire outlook module provides a reliable and accurate nationwide assessment of potential fire dangers.

Pakistan floods threaten food security, destroy key crops

Floods hit dozens of areas Pakistan Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab. Large tracts of farmland were destroyed in the provinces. If thousands of ...

Floods in Pakistan threaten food security, destroy important crops

In space and on the ground, NASA-USAID partnership fights food insecurity

Billions of people around the globe suffer from food insecurity – the inconsistent or insufficient availability and affordability of food. ...