A deep dive into AI energy consumption, data center power demand, and the carbon footprint of AI – and what green computing can realistically fix. Somewhere in the time it takes you to read this sentence, generative AI tools around the world have processed thousands of prompts. Multiply that by every minute of every day,…
With over 70 percent of global emissions tied to cities, the new BRICS Urban Mobility Hub and Voluntary Principles for Climate-Resilient Urban Infrastructure aim to help fast-growing Global South cities electrify transit and flood-proof their infrastructure together. Key Takeaways Cities Are Where the Climate Fight Is Actually Won or Lost More than 70 percent of…
The New Development Bank is scaling up local-currency lending for green infrastructure – a shift that could remove one of the biggest hidden costs slowing down solar, wind, and hydrogen projects across the Global South. Key Takeaways The Hidden Cost That Stalls Green Projects: Currency Risk A solar park or green-hydrogen plant can pencil out…
1. Introduction 1.1 The Hydropower Expansion Boom in Nepal’s Glaciated Basins Nepal has staked its economic future on hydropower. With an estimated theoretical potential exceeding 80,000 MW drawn from its snow- and glacier-fed rivers, the country has spent the past decade racing to build run-of-river (RoR) plants along the Trishuli, Bhote Koshi, Tama Koshi, and…
An evidence-based briefing on ice-rock avalanches, permafrost degradation, and compound hazard chains in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. I. Introduction: A Paradigm Shift in Himalayan Hazard Science For three decades, the dominant mental model of Himalayan disaster risk has centred on one image: a glacial lake, swollen by decades of ice melt, bursting through its earthen…
Seven months into 2026 and the world’s cities have already lived through a preview of what climate scientists have been warning about for a decade: extreme weather that arrives faster, hits harder, and breaks records that were supposed to last generations. A summer town in South Australia hit 49.5°C. Snow drifts in northern Japan buried…
Global warming used to be a line on a graph. It is now a lived reality for nearly every ecosystem on the planet. Coral reefs are bleaching on a near-annual basis, cold-water fish are relocating toward the poles, alpine plants are climbing uphill in search of cooler air, and Arctic permafrost that has stayed frozen…
