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A steep climb to cleaner air in South Asia

In the Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountain ranges, the stunning landscape that makes the region so iconic is also creating a serious obstacle for public health – but NASA atmospheric scientists and the SERVIR programme are working to help keep mountain communities breathing easy.

Meryl Kruskopf & Jacob Ramthun

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29 Mar 2024 SERVIR-HKH
Request for proposals: Consultancy services to revamp the SERVIR-HKH website

ICIMOD is looking for consultancy services to revamp the SERVIR-Hindu Kush Himalaya website. To provide you more details of the ...

Understanding our future climate better using regional climate projections

We partnered with the Met Office, UK’s national meteorological agency, to organize a training in June 2021 on spatial and ...

25 Jun 2018 SERVIR-HKH
Capacity building on Earth observation leads to Afghanistan’s first glacier inventory

In Afghanistan, glaciers serve as the headwaters of the Amu Darya River Basin and contribute to the Indus River Basin. ...

12 Jul 2019 SERVIR-HKH
Training teachers as change agents for Earth observation and geospatial information technology

However, EO and GIT concepts are still rudimentary or non-existent in school curricula across the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region, ...

5 Jun 2020 SERVIR-HKH
Virtually empowering women in Nepal with geospatial skills during the COVID-19 lockdown

Twenty-five women from across Nepal and Australia joined in on morning conference calls for four days in May 2020 with ...