Piloting permafrost research in Humla

Water Scarcity and Women’s Lives: an Observation from the Field

Recently, while on a research trip studying adaptive water governance under the Himalayan Adaption, Water and Resilience ...

Working with the community on cryosphere monitoring

Studying glaciers during the pandemic

Context A small team of researchers from ICIMOD and the French National Research Institute (IRD), completed the annual field expedition to ...

A new generation of water experts: Watershed management professionals in Nepal to focus on reviving drying springs

Over the past four decades, since the Soil Conservation and Management Act came into force in 1982, government bodies in ...

Ice-dammed lake in Hunza created by Shisper Glacier surge breached for the second time in 2020

Clearly reinforcing the critical importance of glacier monitoring, an ice-dammed lake formed by the surging of Shisper Glacier breached for ...

New glacial lake inventory report released, 47 potentially dangerous glacial lakes ranked

A new glacial lake inventory report has identified 47 potentially dangerous glacial lakes (PDGLs) within the ...

Climate change leads to floods

Stakeholders call for more transboundary cooperation to address disaster risk in the Koshi River basin

Earlier this year, the South Asian floods of 2020 were declared a humanitarian crisis when millions across the subcontinent were ...