PESHAWAR:The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has invited qualified women to apply for its upcoming theoretical and hands-on training on the use of Earth observation (EO) and geospatial information technology (GIT)

Floods in Pakistan threaten food security, destroy important crops

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Pakistan floods threaten food security as critical crops destroyed

Flooding in dozens of districts in Pakistan’s Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab provinces has destroyed vast tracts of agricultural land. The ...

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 ...

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काठमाडौँ — मुलुकमा वनको क्षेत्रफल (प्राकृतिक स्रोतले ढाकेको क्षेत्र) बढेको पाइएको छ । सन् २००० मा कुल वन क्षेत्र ३९.९९ ...

Monsoon floods devastate commercial crops, cause loss of $1.7 bn in Sindh: Study

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

MANAGING SEEDS AND AGRICULTURAL LOSSES IN THE WAKE OF EXTREME CLIMATE EVENTS: LESSONS FROM NEPAL

As climate change-induced disasters surge around the world, it is the people of the least developed countries paying the bulk ...

BMD launches High Impact Weather Assessment Toolkit

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on Wednesday introduced the High Impact Weather Assessment Toolkit (HIWAT) aiming to simulate extreme weather hazards ...