Tag: Climate change
Himalayan Communities Face Growing Risk from Climate Change
While the locals do not grasp the jargon of climate change, they feel its impacts daily.
Floods in Kagbeni, Mustang, swept 30 houses and damaged...
Infrastructure in Mountainous Regions at Risk from More Extreme Rainfall
Every degree Celsius of warming increases the density of major downpours by 15 percent at elevations above 2,000 metres, they reported in the journal...
The requirement for climate risk resilience in Nepal’s multiple hydropower projects
Kathmandu: Kul Bahadur Tamang, chairperson of Ward-9 of Panchkhapan Municipality in eastern Sankhuwasabha district, has never seen the havoc created by floods as massive as...
Climate change adds risk to investments in hydropower
At least 30 projects in east suffered damage worth Rs8.5 billion due to floods and landslides in season’s first rains.
Sumuna Shrestha, deputy mayor of...
Climate change to cause frequent landslides in the Himalayan region, including...
According to its study, there will be a 30-70 percent rise in the frequency of landslides in the border regions of China and Nepal...
