Cryosphere Initiative field activities for the autumn 2017

Thana glacier, Bhutan In Bhutan, Sharad Joshi, Associate Glaciologist and two glaciologists from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany, ...

Farmers Learn Beekeeping in Pilot Villages in Bhutan and Nepal

More than one-third of households have two to ten colonies of bees in traditional fixed-comb log-comb, wall-comb, or pitcher hives ...

Training teachers as change agents for Earth observation and geospatial information technology

However, EO and GIT concepts are still rudimentary or non-existent in school curricula across the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region, ...

Melanesian Delegates Visit Nepal to Learn About REDD+ and Community Based Forest Management

Interactive sessions and presentations were conducted at ICIMOD and the REDD Implementation Centre (RIC). Face-to-face interactions with RIC government officials ...

Breaking the bottlenecks: Managing multi-hazard risks in the hydropower sector

The Hydropower Transboundary Working Group (TWG) under the Koshi Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Hub (KDKH) organised a ...

New study finds that crevasses in Himalayan glaciers can play a key role in influencing ice temperature

Glaciers in cold and arid climates, such as in High Mountain Asia, can warm up much faster than expected because ...

Impact of the 2022 floods on agriculture in Pakistan’s Sindh Province

Workshop kickstarts study to evaluate the socio-economic benefits of weather and climate services in Pakistan

Together with the University of Leeds and the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), we have ...