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		<title>Notes from the field: building an early warning system together in North Bihar</title>
		<link>https://blog.icimod.org/cryosphere-water-risks/notes-from-the-field-building-an-early-warning-system-together-in-north-bihar/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Manish Shrestha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 08:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryosphere and water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate and environmental risks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G2O]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[early warning systems]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Communities along the Nepal-India border share family, cultural, and economic ties. For generations, people upstream have called relatives downstream when rivers rose, creating an informal early warning network. This informal mechanism works until it does not. This article discusses ICIMOD and OPRI-SPF work to establish a long-term early warning system through the G2O project.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Understanding landslides in seismic China</title>
		<link>https://blog.icimod.org/cryosphere-water-risks/understanding-landslides-in-seismic-china/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bipin Dulal]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 05:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DRR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iRALL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Large Landslides]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[ICIMOD researchers build capacity in landslide science through field visit at iRALL School 2025 in Chengdu, focusing on multi-hazard mountain risks.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A story of learning, discovery, and integrated river basin management along the Yangtze River</title>
		<link>https://blog.icimod.org/cryosphere-water-risks/a-story-of-learning-discovery-and-integrated-river-basin-management-along-the-yangtze-river/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Md Shahadat Hossain]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[discovery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yangtze river]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Standing above the Yangtze River, eastern China overlooking the Three Gorges Dam and witnessing the sheer scale of this great river sustaining millions of lives, one cannot help but pause and ask: What can a river not endure?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Women, Water, and the Future of Equity in the HKH Region</title>
		<link>https://blog.icimod.org/cryosphere-water-risks/women-water-and-the-future-of-equity-in-the-hkh-region/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Neera Shrestha Pradhan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryosphere and water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unesco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As the world prepares to mark&#160;World Water Day 2026&#160;under the theme&#160;of “Where Water Flows: Equality [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Exploring online and onsite learning to scale integrated water management</title>
		<link>https://blog.icimod.org/cryosphere-water-risks/exploring-online-and-onsite-learning-to-scale-integrated-water-management/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shubhuti Kiran Ghimire]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryosphere and water]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The challenge of water management in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) is fundamentally a systems [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>In deep reverence to Yala Glacier </title>
		<link>https://blog.icimod.org/cryosphere-water-risks/in-deep-reverence-to-yala-glacier/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chimi Seldon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryosphere and water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate and environmental risks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glacier Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Himalaya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HKH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nepal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yala Tribute]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just a decade ago, it would have been difficult to imagine such a solemn ritual to honour the glacier, to lament the loss of much of its ice. Yet the changes are undeniable. Yala Glacier is disappearing. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Drought in the grain basket: A silent agricultural crisis in Nepal’s Madhesh Province </title>
		<link>https://blog.icimod.org/cryosphere-water-risks/drought-in-the-grain-basket-a-silent-agricultural-crisis-in-nepals-madhesh-province/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sravan Shrestha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DRR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earth observation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICIMOD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rice production]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Nepal’s Madhesh Province, widely known as the nation’s ‘Grain Basket’, an unprecedented monsoon failure in July 2025 has led to a severe drought, disrupting rice transplantation and threatening food security. ICIMOD’s Earth Observation analysis reveals over 40% of rice fields under stress, with potential losses of up to 450,000 metric tons, posing a nationwide economic and food crisis. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Born to Drown? Floods, climate extremes, and a call for action from Madhesh</title>
		<link>https://blog.icimod.org/cryosphere-water-risks/born-to-drown-floods-climate-extremes-and-a-call-for-action-from-madhesh/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vuyasi Rajbhandari]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[CBFEWS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chure hills]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gamification]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Lal Bakaiya River in Nepal’s Madhesh Province is no stranger to floods, as rising riverbeds, degraded Chure hills, and unplanned development turn monsoon rains into prolonged disasters. ICIMOD is strengthening local resilience through Community-Based Early Flood Warning Systems (CBFEWS) and innovative gamification of preparedness training, making life-saving knowledge accessible and engaging for all. Combined with integrated watershed management efforts, these initiatives aim to tackle the region’s ‘Too Much Too Little’ water crisis and break the cycle of recurring floods.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Journal of a climate scientist: a chance encounter with a Himalayan Marmot and permafrost nexus</title>
		<link>https://blog.icimod.org/cryosphere-water-risks/journal-of-a-climate-scientist-a-chance-encounter-with-a-himalayan-marmot-and-permafrost-nexus/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sonam Wangchuk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[bhutan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marmot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountain ecosystem]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Marmots spend most of the winter hibernating in their burrows, which need to remain dry and insulated from extreme cold and frozen ground. This behaviour suggests several possible relationships between marmots and permafrost.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hotter, wetter summer monsoon forecast underscores urgency of early warnings</title>
		<link>https://blog.icimod.org/cryosphere-water-risks/hotter-wetter-summer-monsoon-forecast-underscores-urgency-of-early-warnings/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sunipa Das Gupta]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Floods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GLOFs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monsoon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Precipitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SG1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.icimod.org/?p=2628</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[With wetter and hotter extremes, and looming threat of intensifying disasters, HKH needs impact-based early warning systems]]></description>
		
		
		
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