Noticias sobre Nepal
Monsoon rains bring severe flooding and landslides across South Asia
Heavy rainfall, flooding and landslides across three countries in South Asia – Nepal, India, and Bangladesh – have killed at least 93 children, and put the lives of millions more at risk.
Smart wastewater management can help reduce air pollution
“Walk along the Bagmati river in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, and you are hit by a pervasive stench, underlining the fact that poor wastewater management worsens air pollution,” says Birguy Lamizana, a UN Environment specialist on wastewater and pollution.
The water future of Earth’s ‘Third Pole’
This article is part of a series that explores NASA research into Earth's fresh water and surveys how those advances help people solve real world problems. Learn more.
Sri Lanka strengthens its climate resilience
The World Bank approved a $310 million loan to reduce and mitigate flood risks in the lower Kelani basin in Colombo and improve weather forecasting and early warning systems across Sri Lanka.
Access to basic sanitation still lagging for millions in East and Southern Africa
Despite progress towards ensuring basic sanitation services for all, access still eludes many.
Melting of Himalayan glaciers has doubled in recent years
Fast-paced warming is consistently affecting huge region, says new study.
AIIB approves US$90 million in funds for hydro schemes in Nepal
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s (AIIB) Board of Directors has approved a loan of up to USD90 million for the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project, AIIB’s first project in Nepal.
IHA releases 2019 Hydropower Status Report charting growth in renewable hydro
More than 21.8 gigawatts (GW) of renewable hydroelectric capacity was put into operation last year, according to the 2019 Hydropower Status Report which is published on the eve of the World Hydropower Congress in Paris.
Minerals in mountain rivers tell the story of landslide activity upstream
Researchers from the University of Helsinki and the University of Tübingen have come up with a new way of analysing sand in mountain rivers to determine the activity of landslides upstream, which has important implications for understanding natural hazards in mountainous regions.
World Bank supports climate resilient agriculture and infrastructure services in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka and the World Bank signed two new agreements worth $150 million to improve climate resilience and agriculture productivity for small farmers and support priority infrastructure through public-private partnerships.
Water, sanitation, health issues in conflicts must be addressed
On the 4 April 2019, at the opening of the Sanitation and Water for All Sector Ministers’ Meeting in Costa Rica, Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of UNICEF, presented a high-reaching goal to provide safe drinking water to 60 million more people by 2021 and to cut open defecation for 250 million.
The last fountain
The water taps on the streets of Methinkot ran dry after the devastating earthquake of 2015 in Nepal.
What’s in your drinking water?
What if every day you drank water contaminated with a toxic, manmade chemical that had been linked to cancer?
When more women are decision-makers, the environment wins
When more women are involved in group decisions about land management, the group conserves more—particularly when offered financial incentives to do so, according to a new CU Boulder study published this week in Nature Climate Change.
Who can be left behind?
Those who are invisible in the censuses, discriminated women, the inhabitants of the most vulnerable slums, all those ruined by droughts, those surrounded by polluted water, those…
Water, sanitation and hygiene, the pillars of resilience
Last summer two earthquakes and one tsunami devastated two of the poorest areas of Indonesia.
The biodiversity that is crucial for our food and agriculture is disappearing by the day
The first-ever report of its kind presents mounting and worrying evidence that the biodiversity that underpins our food systems is disappearing – putting the future of our food, livelihoods, health and environment under severe threat.
Fine-tuning flood risk management
New rounds of pilot testing and post-flood recovery in India.
140 million people have been drinking water containing arsenic at levels above WHO guidelines
A United Nations University study compares for the first time the effectiveness and costs of many different technologies designed to remove arsenic from groundwater — a health threat to at least 140 million people in 50 countries.
Extreme rainfall events are connected across the world
An analysis of satellite data has revealed global patterns of extreme rainfall, which could lead to better forecasts and more accurate climate models.