Construction of dams indispensable for preventing floods

Pakistani floods endanger food security by destroying crucial crops

Large tracts of agricultural land have been damaged by flooding in dozens of districts in Pakistan’s Baluchistan, Sindh, and Punjab ...

The threat from melting glaciers

ON the steep slope of a glacier jutting through the Hunza valley in Pakistan’s mountainous far north, Tariq Jamil measures ...

Forest cover may have increased but agricultural land is shrinking

Kathmandu, April 25 -- While the forest area of Nepal increased by 1.7 percent, the agricultural land shrunk by 2.1 ...

Sindh ‘facing enormous challenges’ after floods

Sindh Minister for Trade, Industries and Cooperatives Jam Ikra­mullah Dharijo said Monday that the pro­vincial government was facing enormous chal­lenges ...

Floods in Pakistan threaten food security, destroy important crops

Wildfires are raging in Nepal — climate change isn’t the only culprit

Fire predictions pushed to locals’ smartphones could save forests, and lives, say researchers.

Early warning systems saving lives during Nepal’s monsoon

For days leading up to the disaster, Mr. Harisaran Shrestha had been listening to warnings about floods in the Melamchi, ...

Efforts underway to launch geospatial platform for monitoring of Pakistan’s largest afforestation programme

A two-day national workshop on “Establishing a geospatial platform for Pakistan's Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Programme and ecosystem restoration efforts” ...