The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
This brief makes the case for ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) by presenting how it can generate multiple environmental, social and economic benefits. Research shows that benefiting from a wide range of ecosystem services is closely correlated with communities’ degree of resilience to challenges. It presents case studies from Peru, Nepal and …
This report on Nepal‘s food and nutrition security is one of the three main outputs of an analytical and capacity building regional project coordinated by the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Besides Nepal, the project is also implemented in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Lao PDR, the Philippines and Timor-Leste. …
Around five percent of children under the age of five in Banke are suffering from severe malnutrition. According to the District Public Health Office (DPHO) data, around 1,062 children of under five in the district are severely malnourished. The actual number of the malnourished children in Banke could be higher …
The concerned authority has remained mute though locals have been openly encroaching land of the community forest in Khalanga, Jajarkot, of late. Locals have cleared the forest and constructed shanties near the district headquarters. Though hundreds of shanties have been built on forest land, the District Administration, Forest Office and …
As India is home to nearly 70 per cent of world’s tiger population, the Union Environment Ministry is planning to relocate some of the big cats to Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar, where they have either become extinct or are on the verge of it. Experts from these countries recently took …
A total of 18 vultures were found dead during the last two days in Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve. Chief Conservation Officer Bed Kumar Dhakal stated that 18 vultures, the natural environmental cleanser, were found dead on Thursday and Friday after the Piparaiya area was opened to locals living around the reserve …
An air pollution measurement centre has been established in Chitwan under the collaboration of ICIMOD and Nepal National Nature Conservation Trust. Minister for Forest and Soil Conservation Agni Prasad Sapkota launched the new system named Chitwan National Park Air Pollution Quality Centre amidst a function held here on Sunday. The …
KAWASOTI: Smuggling of timber in the forests of Nawalpur in Nawalparasi district has gone massively in the recent days. Generally, smuggling of the timber takes place during winter as the smugglers take advantage of the foggy morning. It is said that timber smuggling is rife in the national and community …
This brief provides an introduction to ecosystem-based adaptation to climatic risks and hazards. It presents the concept and principles of ecosystem-based adaptation, the environmental, social and cultural benefits, as well as case studies from Nepal, Peru and Uganda. Further, it proposes a framework for holistic ecosystem-based adaptation. This guidance document …
Nepal's earthquake in April 2015 was frightening. It killed thousands of people and left others without homes. Now, though, researchers have announced that there were far fewer landslides from this devastating earthquake than expected-and have found out why that is. "It was a really bad earthquake-over 9,000 fatalities in four …
The number of rare birds and animals, including lophophorus, is decreasing in the district due to rampant poaching and smuggling. People are found selling meat of such endangered species openly even in district headquarters Chainpur. Sources said people in Kada, Surma, Daulichaur, Rilu, Dahabagar, Lekgaun, Melbisauna and Kailash areas hunt …
The impacts stemming from the big earthquakes that struck Nepal earlier this year could have been much, much worse, say scientists. An international team has just published a review of the events, showing the number of landslides was far lower than people had feared. And the group could find no …
The devastating magnitude-7.8 earthquake that struck Nepal in April caused surprisingly few landslides, researchers say — confirming the early impressions of scientists who raced to map collapsed terrain in the quake’s aftermath. However, there is still hot debate over just how severe the event’s impacts were.
KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On a Sunday morning, dozens of police officers in combat gear stand guard at a petrol station in Kathmandu’s Lalitpur neighborhood. Outside, nearly a hundred cars, motorbikes and buses form a serpentine line, their drivers hoping to buy a few liters of fuel. Disruption in …
Glaciers on Mount Qomolangma have shrunk by 28 percent over the past 40 years due to climate change, according to a report released over the weekend. The glacial shrinkage area is compared to the measurements taken in the 1970s. The glacier area on the south slope of the mountain, in …
In the present study, the strong motion data of the 4 April 2011 western Nepal earthquake (M 5.7) recorded by a dense network of 24 strong motion accelerograph stations have been used to estimate horizontal and vertical component of the peak ground acceleration (PGA) to better understand its bearing on …
A fresh earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter Scale jolted Myagdi on Sunday noon, according to the National Seismological Centre. The earthquake occurred at 12:41 pm. The quake was not the aftershock of the April 25 'Gorkha Quake' but a new earthquake in itself, the Centre's website states. Likewise, fresh …
Poor harvest of summer crops triggered by scanty rainfall has worsened food security situation in Mugu district. Around 90 percent people in the district are involved in agriculture, and they are worried about possible food shortage this year. Some impoverished settlements are already facing food shortage. Photu, Jima, Kalai, Natharpu, …
This book seeks to capture the leasehold forestry experience, with a special focus on the Leasehold Forestry and Livestock Programme, which has been a critical part of the leasehold forestry experience in Nepal. It will describe the origins and evolution of the various leasehold forestry programmes and projects that have …
Since 2004, Halji village, home of the oldest Buddhist Monastery in north-western Nepal, has suffered from recurrent glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs). A sudden englacial drainage of a supraglacial lake, located at a distance of 6.5 km from the village, was identified as the source of the flood. The topography …
