“Numerous developments are ongoing in the Arctic region. And therefore, we see at the Arctic Center that joint efforts to provide science-based knowledge are needed more than ever. I give you some examples of the developments that we see in the everyday Arctic, where we live in,

“The Arctic ice is melting much faster than the Himalayas, but I think there's so much learning that we can share with each other. Climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, all these planetary crises do not recognise national boundaries or borders. Therefore, what we would

Nepal initiates development of National Air Quality Management Action Plan . The Department of Environment (DoEnv), Government of Nepal, in collaboration with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and United Kingdom International Development, on

“Together, we have more power" 🔋. The Hindu Kush Himalaya holds over 3,500 GW of renewable energy potential, yet clean sources make up just 6.1% of the region’s total energy supply. More than 800 million people still depend on traditional biomass for cooking. As ICIMOD’s

Summit to cement ties between two of Earth’s most exposed cryospheric zones to take place in Kathmandu. Researchers from leading Arctic universities and Hindu Kush Himalayan academia, think tanks, and policy, will be in Kathmandu to attend a three-day conference starting

The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) has become the third regional hub for the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA) global research network, reflecting both the region’s immense biological richness and precarity. The GMBA Hindu Kush Himalaya hub, which will be hosted by the

Indigenous peoples are custodians of unique knowledge, practices, and culture that sustain the balance between the human and natural world. In the rangelands of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), pastoralist communities – through the age-old practice of transhumance, which is the

In the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), often called the ‘Third Pole’, towering glaciers, forests, and vast rangelands sustain biodiversity, feed Asia’s great rivers, and support the livelihoods of mountain communities. Glaciers, our frozen lifelines, are melting at alarming rates

"What legacy will we leave behind? Will we be the generation that watched rivers dry and glaciers vanish? Or the generation that reimagined its relationship with water and acted before it was too late?" - Pema Gyamtsho, Director General, ICIMOD. As we close #WorldWaterWeek,

Since the 1990s, nearly 1.5 million springs in the Indian Himalaya have been disappearing. Reviving springs is urgent. But are the costs of revival worth the benefits from it? . A cost-benefit analysis of springs revival by a group of economists from the South Asian

Nepali platform Setopati publishes a piece by Anju Pandit, ICIMOD Springshed Management Analyst, on the cultural significance of springs in Nepal, and their precarity. “Our lives are tied to springs for livestock, irrigation, drinking, and domestic use,” Pandit writes. “But

Springs form the primary water source for over 50 million people in the Indian Himalaya. But springs are drying - and they’re drying fast. This #WorldWaterWeek, our newly published booklet ‘Science in Spring Restoration’ brings you the stories, science, and results of our

To overcome seasonal droughts lasting up to five months, the villagers of Fatu, in the Guizhou Province of China, built small reservoirs, integrated climate-smart practices and adapted their crops. Their story reveals how community, policy, and science can sustain spring

“We have somehow forgotten that our fate flows with that of water – and always has. Our relationship with freshwater in particular has become increasingly instrumentalised and monetised: river understood as resource, not life force,” writes Robert Macfarlane. From glaciers to

RT @htTweets: #Opinion | Message from Himalayas: All’s not well with the hills. "Early warning systems, community preparedness, and develop….

“Moving beyond tokenism requires embedding Gender Equality and Social Inclusion into the core of springshed management, not as a box-ticking exercise”, writes ICIMOD’s Springshed Management Analyst Goma Khadka for the Nepali Times. “Every dawn in the Himalaya, before anyone else

Today at World Water Week in Stockholm, we debuted CONFLUENCE – ICIMOD's and #SaveOurSnow's new transboundary storytelling project. THE CONFLUENCE PROJECT brings together some of the region’s most inspiring filmmaking talent to tell the stories of Asia’s ten great glacier-fed

Can AI help solve the water crisis in the Himalaya? . In Nepal’s Kavrepalanchowk, a pilot study with Frank Water, and Colectiv tested a new approach to document water challenges – combining mobile audio diaries with artificial-intelligence analysis. Local communities recorded

Water diplomacy is more important than ever, argues Professor Anamika Barua, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, in this excerpt from a dialogue ICIMOD held earlier this year. With #WorldWaterWeek in full swing, hear Barua make the case for a neutral platform for