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8 Oct 2022 | SERVIR-HKH

Construction of dams indispensable for preventing floods

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The construction of dams is indispensable for the development of a country as these water reservoirs produce energy, irrigation water, and also help prevent floods.

5 Jan 2021 SERVIR-HKH
Shrinking, Thinning, Retreating: Afghan glaciers under threat from climate change

Lying high up in Afghanistan’s highest mountains, hidden from most human eyes, are almost 4,000 glaciers, according to the first ...

21 Jun 2022 SERVIR-HKH
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 ...

15 May 2023 SERVIR-HKH
Empowering Women in Geospatial Information Technology – 2023 Edition

Applications are invited for the SERVIR-HKH Initiative Empowering Women in Geospatial Information Technology Program 2023. The SERVIR-HKH Initiative is organising ...

16 Mar 2022 SERVIR-HKH
Geospatial platform on cards to monitor afforestation programme

Efforts are underway to launch a geospatial platform for monitoring the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami afforestation programme and ecosystem restoration ...

31 Mar 2022 SERVIR-HKH
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 ...

24 Jun 2022 SERVIR-HKH
NASA Data Supercharges Forecasting in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has a long history of deadly and costly storms. Among the most worrisome are kalbaishakhi, small but powerful storm ...

13 Sep 2022 SERVIR-HKH
Pakistan floods threaten food security as critical crops destroyed

Agricultural land inundated by flooding is set to have long-term humanitarian and economic impacts in Pakistan. Billions of dollars ...

29 Mar 2021 SERVIR-HKH
Charting a new path for SAR applications in the HKH

Satellites provide a synoptic overview of our world. This overview is particularly useful in understanding our environments better.