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Najboon Khatun looks up at the sky every day, searching for the possibility of rain. Clouds come and go without a drop of water. “Winter crops like wheat and vegetables need water, but like last year, there has been no rainfall yet,” says 65-year-old Khatun, expressing her anguish.
Permanently frozen terrain covers 22% of the Earth’s surface. This area is more than 112 million square kilometres. People call ...
Le Directeur de l’ICIMOD s’exprime dans une interview pour la presse himalayenne. Il partage quelques enjeux majeurs de l’arc Hindu ...
This was revealed by a new dataset released by the Kathmandu-based ICIMOD on Friday; Impacts from GLOF events have increased ...
Ninety per cent of the global population lives in the Northern Hemisphere, above the Equator
Fifteen million people worldwide are at risk of glacial lake flooding, with two million of them in Pakistan, according to ...
From Afghanistan to China, vanishing glaciers risk floods and drought for billions
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development has said 5.72 million metric tons of paddy have been harvested this year.
A farmer and a village leader in Pakistan's highlands decided it was time to try to make a glacier baby.
