Regional knowledge centre nominates secretary of MOCHTA as board chair

[caption id="attachment_7328" align="aligncenter" width="560"] Photo credit: Farid Ahmad/ICIMOD[/caption] The Secretary of the Ministry of ...

In service of mountains and people

Breaker of taboos Didar Ali, one of the founding members of the Bulbulik Heritage Centre in Gulmit, Gilgit-Baltistan Pakistan, has dedicated himself to ...

Virtually empowering women in Nepal with geospatial skills during the COVID-19 lockdown

Twenty-five women from across Nepal and Australia joined in on morning conference calls for four days in May 2020 with ...

PAKISTAN SECURES $10M IN CLIMATE FINANCE FOR NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR WOMEN AND YOUTH IN THE INDUS

Women in the Hunza Valley planting sea buckthorn (Photo: Kanwal Waqar) Kathmandu, ...

Knowledge forum calls for strengthened regional collaboration to support inclusive climate resilience in the Himalayan and downstream region

Unless countries in the Himalayan and downstream region strengthen collaboration to address food, water and energy issues, the region’s agricultural ...

Bangladesh can look to free satellite images to map its future

Requiem for a glacier: Tribute held in Nepal for one of the Hindu Kush Himalaya’s most-studied rivers of ice

Langtang’s Yala Glacier set to join growing numbers of glaciers around the world declared dead due to temperature rise ...

Urgent action needed on black carbon: a key driver of glacier melt and monsoon disruption

Figure 1 | Regional contribution to black carbon emissions with 60% of emissions in South Asia coming from residential combustion ...