Geologists are once again debating whether dam construction in China has led to a proliferation of earthquakes.

Climate change experts head to “adaptation capital of the world”

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.

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.

An ICIMOD workshop bringing together Pakistan and Chinese representatives in Gilgit, Pakistan in April.

This meeting aims to share experiences on building green cities in secure river basins between Asia and the Netherlands.

Local Tibetans had petitioned for closure of the billion-dollar copper, silver and gold mine, owned by China Gold International Resources, after reports of poisoned drinking water