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Climate change causing faster snow melt in the Himalayas

New study shows decrease in average snow drought duration; this increases the risk of floods

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Prayer Flags and The Machermo Range From Gokyo Ri, Nepal [image by: Peter Carey / Alamy] Article
biodiversity

Review: ‘Himalaya: A Human History’

Health workers distributing free sanitary pads to the women and girls in the Indian state of Tripura and explaining to them the necessary of using it, in a health camp. [image by: Abhisek Saha / SOPA Images / ZUMA Wire / Alamy Live News] Article
gender

As India breaks the taboo over sanitary pads, an environmental crisis mounts

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carbon emissions

Countries come up short on carbon-cutting commitments

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Covid-19

Health challenge looms as millions to gather at India’s Kumbh festival

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dams

Dams, roads worsened Himalayan flood impact manifold

The Indus at the site of the proposed Diamer-Basha dam [image by: Water and Power Development Authority, Pakistan] Article
civil society

Pakistan’s judiciary weighs in on environmental challenges with some success

Baglihar dam Article
disasters

Uttarakhand disaster: Are there lessons for Jammu and Kashmir?

The Suuluu-Tegerek field in the Chatkal region has been mercilessly exploited by investors for a long time. The river bed has been destroyed, impacted local flora and fauna, landscape at the foot of the mountains has changed Article
mining

Gold mining at heart of recent Kyrgyz political turmoil

Bhola river Photo Story
adaptation

In Bangladesh, a community lives and dies on boats

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birds

New plan may finally save India’s vultures

Avalanche rescue training in Chitral [image courtesy: AKAH-P] Article
gender

Pakistani women scale the heights in rescue teams

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adaptation

'ICIMOD’s work is aimed towards goal of resilience building'

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Saat mule (seven springs)—source of water for Nepal’s first hydropower project installed in 1911. Locals have built seven spouts and use this water for drinking and other purposes. Rest of the water goes to the reservoir pond [image by: Ramesh Bhushal]
Saat mule (seven springs)—source of water for Nepal’s first hydropower project installed in 1911. Locals have built seven spouts and use this water for drinking and other purposes. Rest of the water goes to the reservoir pond [image by: Ramesh Bhushal]
Photo story

The forgotten tale of Nepal’s first hydro project

Built over a hundred years ago to light the Rana’s palaces, Nepal’s first hydropower project – and South Asia’s second – now lies abandoned along with the country’s grand dam ambitions

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refugees

Human traffickers prey on Rohingya refugees

In Bangladesh’s refugee camps, people are lured by dreams of a better life and of meeting family to take a ruinously expensive and murderously risky illegal route to Malaysia
farmers protest, Delhi, India, Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire Article
activism

Climate crisis is foundation of Indian farmers’ protests

The current protests by Indian farmers against the passage of three laws have deep roots in income insecurity, which is driven by changing rainfall patterns and incentives that promote the overuse of water
Woman farmer carrying her child while cutting rice crops from the field, in village Qasim Solangi, Hyderabad [image by: Manoj Genani] Article
agriculture

Women in Pakistan’s Sindh win historic recognition to manage water

Excluded from water management for years despite being a major part of the agricultural workforce in Sindh, women farmers have been granted a role in water governance after the passage of a new amendment
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agriculture

As the Ural river disappears, a crisis looms for Eurasia

Despite some conservation efforts and regional cooperation, the Ural river is rapidly shrinking, threatening the water security of Kazakhstan and the wider region.
Video

Video: Climate migrants in the shadow of Everest

On World Environment Day, a report on villagers in eastern Nepal forced to move as mountain springs dry up in the Himalayas

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Faith to reality: a journey down the Karnali River Faith to reality: a journey down the Karnali River 5 Articles
Rakchaas Taal (Demon Lake) south of Kailash.
floods

A journey down the Karnali: Living in fear of floods

Women in Kapri village Bajura, western Nepal, preparing millet for use after harvest [Image by Nabin Baral]
hydropower

Dams and dreams – a journey down the Karnali

A Tibetan woman collects yak dung for cooking fuel in Kardung Village in Tibet. This is the first village on the bank of Karnali River (also called Mapcha Khambab) in Tibet [image by: Nabin Baral]
rivers

Ignoring climate change in the Himalayas

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