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21 Jun 2022 | SERVIR-HKH

NASA, BMD partners to boost Bangladesh’s weather forecasting capabilities

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Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has introduced High Impact Weather Assessment Toolkit (HIWAT) aiming to simulate extreme weather hazards and issue more accurate operational forecasts.

5 Jan 2021 SERVIR-HKH
Shrinking, Thinning, Retreating: Afghan glaciers under threat from climate change

Lying high up in Afghanistan’s highest mountains, hidden from most human eyes, are almost 4,000 glaciers, according to the first ...

13 Sep 2022 SERVIR-HKH
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 ...

31 Mar 2022 SERVIR-HKH
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 ...

12 Sep 2022 SERVIR-HKH
Monsoon Floods Devastate Commercial Crops, Cause Loss Of $1.7 Bln In Sindh: Study

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

29 Mar 2021 SERVIR-HKH
Charting a new path for SAR applications in the HKH

Satellites provide a synoptic overview of our world. This overview is particularly useful in understanding our environments better.

25 Apr 2022 SERVIR-HKH
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 ...

15 Mar 2022 SERVIR-HKH
Govt To Launch Satellite Monitoring Based State Of Forest Report

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam on Tuesday said that the Ministry of ...

24 Apr 2022 SERVIR-HKH
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