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11 Aug 2021 | Cryosphere

What can the past teach us about the future?

Ankita Shah & Samjhana Karki

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Interacting with 84-year-old Lopsang Lopchen (seated, with blue cap) and his family in Langtang. (Photo: Alina Englisch/ICMS)
24 Jan 2018 Cryosphere
Cryosphere Initiative field activities for the autumn 2017

Thana glacier, Bhutan In Bhutan, Sharad Joshi, Associate Glaciologist and two glaciologists from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany, ...

6 Jun 2016 Cryosphere
Journey to Yala Glacier

The handset shortwave radio finally crackled, 'Chimi ji, are you still there? Over!' asked Ngawang, the leader of the expedition ...

19 Dec 2016 Cryosphere
UAV, a learning on a new technology on glacier monitoring

The day when my supervisor asked me to join the  practical, field-based training on the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ...

24 Sep 2019 KDKH
Country chapter for the Koshi disaster risk reduction knowledge hub to be developed

A recent UNESCAP disaster risk-focused report has identified transboundary river basins in South Asia as disaster hotspots. One such area ...

1 May 2019 CryoHub
More research needed to understand the impact of cryosphere changes on mountain communities in the HKH

The review brings the much needed discussion on cryosphere services and their importance to the spotlight. The high-mountain societies that ...

Capacity building activities till June 2022

One of our primary objectives is to improve the capacity of our partners to monitor cryosphere changes in the region. ...

8 Sep 2016 Gender in Koshi
Ratu River Communities Prepared for Flash Floods

A team from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) visited community based flood early warning system (CBFEWS) sites ...