At The Crossroads takes ICIMOD Prize at the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival

Through his subtle yet powerful depiction of the struggles of rural mountain village life in Uttarakhand, India, director Savyasachi Anju ...

Pilot Projects Achieve Targets in Upper Indus Basin

A review and planning meeting was held in Islamabad on 7 June, 2016 on two projects underway ...

High Yielding Variety of Oat Grass to Address Fodder Crisis in the Kangchenjunga Landscape, Bhutan

The Kangchenjunga Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (KLCDI) is a transboundary initiative which covers an area of 25,085.8 square kilometres, ...

Our biodiversity, our food, our health

Agricultural biodiversity is essential to ensuring food security, nutrition, and human wellbeing. The diversity in crops and livestock seen today ...

IUCN report identifies sites with World Heritage potential in Himalaya and beyond

A new report lists seven broad areas in the Himalayas, the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram mountain ranges where new ...

Ensuring long-term data series on Trambau and Trakarding glaciers, Rolwaling Valley

Soil Erosion a Serious Concern in the Koshi Basin

Published in 2016, the study showed that the soil loss rate estimated was 22 million tonnes per hectare of barren ...

Government of Nepal and ICIMOD Initiate Localization of Environmental Agenda and Issues at Provincial Level

The convention provided a national platform to deliberate on environmental issues (affecting air, water, and land), and is expected to ...