A Steep Climb to Cleaner Air in South Asia
NASA atmospheric scientists and the SERVIR program are working to help keep communities breathing easy in the Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountain ranges.
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NASA atmospheric scientists and the SERVIR program are working to help keep communities breathing easy in the Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountain ranges.
A team of six youth innovators called ‚“No Grant SMOG” won the first prize at Smogathon Thailand 2020 for inventing active-learning tools to educate elementary school children about smog.
|Wadee Deeprawat, SERVIR-Mekong/ADPC
On Tuesday January 24, 2023, the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Robert F. Godec and Dr. Karen M. St. Germain, Earth Science Division Director at NASA launched the SERVIR-Southeast Asia program.
|USAID Regional Development Mission for Asia
More than 50 million people in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar draw water for drinking and agriculture from the Mekong River.
|Jacob Ramthun, SERVIR Science Coordination Office
On January 30, 2024 Administrator Samantha Power announced new initiatives to accelerate and expand programs that contribute to the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE), aimed at preparing communities and building their resilience to these perpetual and deadly climate “shocks.”
Air quality is a significant challenge for Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), a high mountain region of South Asia, where it frequently reaches unhealthy to hazardous levels. New SERVIR HKH web and mobile tools developed through crowdsourcing aim to help public health and environmental managers monitor and forecast air quality for this region.
|Trista Brophy Cerquera (Former NASA Applied Sciences Intern), Elissa Fielding (NASA Earth Action Intern), Shobhana Gupta, MD, PhD (NASA Applied Sciences)
The SERVIR-HKH hub works with national, regional, and local governments to co-develop tools and services to help mountain communities improve climate resilience and sustainable resource management.
Governments in Southeast Asia can leverage the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) through an enhanced tool, developed by SERVIR Southeast Asia (SERVIR SEA), to estimate the environmental and health impacts of air pollution in their countries and implement effective responses.
|Peyman Pejman and Peeranan Towashiraporn, SERVIR Southeast Asia
SERVIR improves local and regional capacity to provide tools, products, and services that empower decision makers to better address critical issues related to food security, water resources, natural disasters, land use, and extreme weather. Building on thirteen years of experience, SERVIR has grown in its geographical reach and has adapted its approach based on lessons learned.