Tag: #climate crisis
Articles tagged with #climate crisis
REWIND 2025
Known as the land of Mt Everest, Nepal in 2025 became synonymous with youth-led regime change
Preventing irreversible glacier loss
High Asia's glaciers are important to society, economy, and livelihoods
How much ice must melt before we act?
Cryosphere loss has immediate consequences for water security, livelihoods, infrastructure, and climate justice
COP30 to COP31
Reimagining Nepal’s climate approach to demonstrate leadership on behalf of vulnerable nations
Reconstructing the China–India climate diplomacy
How China and India address climate change and reduce emissions will impact on the planet's future
Climate of tragedy and apathy
Nepal’s inability to raise Himalayan haze and permafrost issues at COPs and regional fora exposes failures in science and diplomacy
Hydropower on thin ice
As the COP30 climate summit gets underway in Brazil, Nepal confronts risk to its hydropower plants
Himalayan tipping points
Exhibition uses art to communicate climate breakdown in the Himalaya at an emotional level
A pre-monsoon déjà vu
Remembering Janmu Sherpa as Kathmandu hosts Sagarmatha Sambaad
Combining IPCC targets with SDGs
The IPCC meet in China this week is urged to integrate Sustainable Development Goals with climate targets
Thinking the thinkable
Two entwined global threats in 2025: climate breakdown and nuclear catastrophe.
Those who stay
Weathering the consequences of climate breakdown at the top of the world
Decentralising power in Nepal
The country’s distributed generation strategy also reduces new risks from climate breakdown
Climate breakdown linked to Thame flood
Suspected glacial collapse damages half of the settlement of Thame in the Everest region
Leaky roofs on the Roof of the World
Climate breakdown brings rain to once-arid region of Nepal, altering traditional architecture
Climate breakdown magnifies western Nepal’s woes
Parched by heatwave and drought, Western Nepal is running out of water
When yaks go, so does culture
Yak herds decline due to lifestyle changes, the climate crisis and outmigration
Sunak pledges more support for Nepal
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak commits to helping Nepal with the climate crisis and economy
Ice to water
Snow leopard researcher turns to photographic art to visualise the climate crisis in the Himalaya
Press under Pressure
When the other pillars of democracy fail to act as check and balance, the press has to step in to hold power to account
Changing climate for investment in Nepal
Climate breakdown has added new risks to banks financing infrastructure in the Himalaya
War and warming
It is a macabre choice about which is a bigger threat to the planet: nuclear winter or climate heating.
Climate crisis → drought → food deficit → migration
Half-century of eastern Nepal’s rainfall data points to a link between chronic drought and depopulation
Climate crisis ruins Himalayan pastoralists
Nepal’s shepherds leave their ancestral occupation due to climate change and outmigration