A major US aid programme to Nepal that monitored climate risks including glacier collapses – an event that led to the ongoing flooding disaster in the country – was ended in January 2025 after Donald Trump issued a sweeping freeze on US foreign aid in his first week in office.
Run jointly by NASA, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), the programme - SERVIR-Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) - tracked risks related to floods, glacial lakes, and water supplies, while also monitoring local weather patterns other environmental changes.
