CHIMI SELDON Why monitor glacial lakes? Of the 3,624 glacial lakes in the Koshi, Karnali, and Gandaki basins, our 2020 inventory identified 47 as potentially dangerous or at of risk of outburst...
Earlier this year, the South Asian floods of 2020 were declared a humanitarian crisis when millions across the subcontinent were impacted. Already reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, some 9.6 million...
Report by ICIMOD and UNDP identifies potentially dangerous glacial lakes in river basins of Nepal, the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, and India Kathmandu, 7 September 2020 – A new report from the...
About the project Strengthening Water Resources Management in Afghanistan (SWaRMA) was a two-year project (2018–2019) supported by the National Water Affairs Regulation Authority (NWARA) – formerly...
By Mir Matin, Kabir Uddin, Kiran Shakya, Sudip Pradhan, Birendra Bajracharya & Franz Mayer The monsoon floods in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region are worsening the humanitarian crises caused by...
DAVID JAMES MOLDEN The ICIMOD family has been working from home since March because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Besides the deluge of news about the virus and its impacts across the Hindu Kush...
ARUN BHAKTA SHRESTHA, AJAZ ALI & SHARMILA DHUNGANA The third Upper Indus Basin Network (UIBN) Regional Strategic Committee (RSC) meeting, held virtually on 25 June 2020, brought together members,...
The Met Office – the UK’s national meteorological service – and ICIMOD, in collaboration with the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), organized a three-day training on numerical weather...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This assessment analyses the vulnerability of the ecosystem, infrastructure, and socio-economic conditions in Hakha Township located in Chin State, Myanmar in relation to present...
SHER MUHAMMAD Clearly reinforcing the critical importance of glacier monitoring, an ice-dammed lake formed by the surging of Shisper Glacier breached for the second time within 2020 on 29 May,...