Why has water-rich Yunnan become a drought hotspot?
April 30, 2013
Calls by Yunnan officials to restrict water flows to other countries overlook the ecological and water quality factors behind south-west China’s drought
Monthly Archives: April 30, 2013
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Could dams be causing China’s earthquakes?
April 26, 2013
Geologists are once again debating whether dam construction in China has led to a proliferation of earthquakes.
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International conference on community based adaptation to climate change in Dhaka
April 19, 2013
Climate change experts head to “adaptation capital of the world”
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Pay us for our water, Kashmir tells New Delhi
April 16, 2013
The government of Jammu and Kashmir has hired an international consultant to quantify the losses suffered by the Himalayan state due to the Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan
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China’s geoengineering plans dismissed as “fantasy”
April 11, 2013
The authorities are increasing their cloud-seeding ambitions in response to drought, but many experts are sceptical about the benefits
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Climate change confuses Kashmir’s farmers
April 11, 2013
Faced with increasing frequency of droughts, and with irrigation facilities available to less than half the farms, rice farmers in Kashmir are wondering how to deal with water shortage.
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Community radio helps Indian farmers make sense of climate science
April 09, 2013
thethirdpole.net has been part of a pioneering new project to train local radio broadcasters to understand and report on climate change.
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New programme to study Himalayan glaciers systematically
April 09, 2013
The Himalayan glaciers are shrinking – no sentence in the climate change debate has generated more controversy. Despite that, there is an astounding lack of knowledge about the state of these glaciers. A new joint programme of the governments of India and Switzerland hopes to start changing that in a systematic manner.
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Aviation emissions may jump manifold: study
April 09, 2013
The global aviation industry has committed that its greenhouse gas emissions will not increase after 2020, and by 2050 emissions will be halved from 2005 levels. But a recent study projects that aviation emissions will actually increase between 50 and 500% instead, unless market-based measures are used.
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Workshop on cooperation for conservation in the Karakoram-Pamir border region
April 05, 2013
An ICIMOD workshop bringing together Pakistan and Chinese representatives in Gilgit, Pakistan in April.