Concerns as snow and common leopards turn competitors

October 23, 2020

As climate change forces snow leopards to lower altitudes, they encounter new threats including from common leopards moving upwards for the same reason – a report on World Snow Leopard Day

Glacial lakes become more deadly as Himalayan ice melts

September 29, 2020

Researchers map the most dangerous lakes and call on China and Nepal to work together to reduce the threat of catastrophic flooding

China’s new carbon neutrality pledge: What next?

September 24, 2020

Experts react to President Xi’s statement that China will up its climate ambition by striving for carbon neutrality by 2060

Why are landslides so deadly in Nepal?

September 14, 2020

Despite having the highest fatality rate in the world relative to population, Nepal’s authorities have failed to face up to landslide risks, with haphazard road building and climate change making things worse

India’s child activists lead the fight against climate change

September 14, 2020

Concerned about the dangers of climate change and environmental degradation, children in India have taken to activism, demanding their rights to a better future

Extreme rainfall events have more than doubled in Himalayas

September 10, 2020

New studies show the chance of sudden, catastrophic river flooding in the western Himalayas has doubled as climate change leads to an increase in extreme rainfall events