Central-Asia
A new study in the Journal of Hydrology uses a novel modelling technique that helps scientists understand the effect of evaporation on the expansion of lakes in the inner Tibetan...
According to Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), the recent torrential rains and flooding in the country’s north have killed over 200 people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Gilgit-Baltistan. These mountainous parts of the country have numerous roads blocked due to...
The Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE) has announced that its fourth expedition will be to Ladakh, India, in June 2016. This year the carefully selected team will light up the 2550-year...
¿Por qué un grupo de banqueros y gestores de fondos pasó toda una tarde en un café de Zúrich hablado de la naturaleza? Por las oportunidades y la innovación.
No nos engañemos, la naturaleza no es el Nuevo Silicon Valley, pero está llamando la atención de los...
Politicians become interested in water only when there are prolonged droughts and serious floods. The moment these events are over, interest evaporates.
This is mainly due to the way water issues are currently framed. Discussions focus on supply and quality of water. They are...
In the middle hills of Nepal, securing water for drinking and livelihood-related activities is a big challenge. Despite the fact that Nepal’s annual per capita water availability is more than 8,000 cubic metres, this number does not mean much to the people living in the middle hills....
No-one knows exactly when potatoes arrived in Central Asia. Native to South America, early European traders brought the tuber east. By the late 17th century contemporary accounts suggest that the crop was well established in India and China. A century later, it was being cultivated...
High atop a mountain in Mongolia, a team of trackers splits into three groups to check their traps each morning. Their goal: to catch a snow leopard, one of the most elusive creatures on Earth, so rare that few have seen one of the big cats in the wild.
After failing to catch...
“When we organized our first commercial Master Class, we did not expect all this to happen” said Andrey Zaytsev, FLEG Country Program Coordinator for IUCN Russia, “I am very pleased to see that...
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