International Mount Everest Day: Mountain communities call to urgently decarbonise Everest

HKH region witnessing increasing climate change impact, which will only increase in intensity and frequency, warns ICIMOD

WARNING FROM STUDENTS

KATHMANDU

FOREST TAKEOVER

Melting Hindu Kush Himalayas will decrease water in river basins by 2100, warns ICIMOD

Contribution of water from glaciers to Ganges, Brahmaputra and Indus will increase through 2050, then decrease by 2100

Nepal industrialists blame blinkered policies

Industrialists in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal deny they are to blame for the degradation of their environment and blame it instead on the …

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United Nations

PUBLIC PRESSURE

GASTRO-ENTERMS DEATHS

CHILD LABOUR

Ignorance and arrogance make for good floods

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SMALL BUT POWERFUL

How is South Asia faring on energy?

A new publication on energy in the region raises critical questions

The last mayor of Kathmandu

Aditya Batra in conversation with Keshab Sthapit, a mayor famous for muscling his way to urban renewal

Health hazard

World Water Week 2023: We must invest in natural solutions like spring revival for water security

Time to move away from a hard-engineering approach and embrace nature-based solutions for water security in hill and mountain communities  

South Asia

South Asia

Communities require policy support to manage forests well, says FAO

UN body recommends setting up forest and farm producer organisations so that small-scale forest producers can compete with large-scale business

South Asia

South Asia

South Asia

‘Brick kiln workers in India underpaid and exploited’

India employs double the number of labourers than China, yet produces one-fifth of China’s annual brick production of 1 trillion