The HKH Snow Update 2025 highlights a significant decline in seasonal snow across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, with snow persistence 23.6% below normal — the lowest in 23 years. This trend, now in its third consecutive year, threatens water security for nearly two billion people. All twelve major river …
The HKH Snow Update 2025 highlights a significant decline in seasonal snow across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, with snow persistence 23.6% below normal — the lowest in 23 years. This trend, now in its third consecutive year, threatens water security for nearly two billion people. All twelve major river …
The IEA’s special report Energy and AI, out today, offers the most comprehensive, data-driven global analysis to date on the growing connections between energy and AI. The report draws on new datasets and extensive consultation with policy makers, the tech sector, the energy industry and international experts. It projects that …
A Bill that seeks to amend the existing law governing exploration and production of oil and gas as well as delink petroleum operations from mining operations was passed by the Lok Sabha on Wednesday (March 12, 2025). The Oilfields (Regulation and Development) Amendment Bill, 2024, is aimed at boosting investment …
Most of the world’s nations are not doing enough to protect women and girls from the economic and social fallout being caused by the COVID-19 crisis, according to new data released today by UNDP and UN Women from the COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker. The tracker, which includes over 2,500 …
Technology brings many positive innovations and opportunities but unless it is developed with security in mind, it presents more risks and potential disruption than solutions. This report provides a framework to develop technology in a secure manner, focusing on essential principles such as privacy-by-design and security-by-design. The COVID-19 pandemic has …
The White House is advancing plans to form a presidential panel that will question science used in U.S. military and intelligence reports showing that human-driven climate change poses national security risks, according to a source briefed by participants in the negotiations. The National Security Council at the White House has …
`Warming-Induced Drought In Mideast, Africa Is Already Leading To Conflicts Over Food & Water' The accelerating rate of climate change poses a severe risk to national security and acts as a catalyst for global political conflict, a report published on Tuesday by a leading government-funded military research organization concluded. The …
KATHMANDU: Experts today underlined the need of a separate policy and mechanism to address the water security of peri-urban parts in South Asian countries. A two-day conference to share the research programmes conducted in the four cities of South Asia kicked off in Kathmandu today. Researches highlighted the plight of …
The 2015 Food Safety and Security Conference comes from the demand from our industry players as well as our mission to educate and update Caribbean food industry personnel in global changes, challenges and the importance of best practices and international standards. We will bring together an arena of food safety …
