Opinion: The Glacier Crisis No Longer Remains A Remote, Abstract Problem
Over the past few weeks, a wave of publications from UN Water, the World Meteorological Organization and the Clean Air...
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‘To Find Common Ground In The Himalayas Is In Our Self-Interest’
In June 2023, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) released its latest report on the cryosphere (regions where...
Long Dry Weather Hits J&K’s Forests, Glaciers And Water Bodies
Jammu and Kashmir has been witnessing dry weather over the past six weeks, posing a significant threat to the region’s...
Scientists Say Worse Is To Come As Himalayan Snow Ceases
Vikram Katoch is visibly worried: the vast valley of Lahaul-Spiti in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh is almost...
Global Warming Shocks The Tibetan Plateau
In May this year, I followed the Hengduan mountains into the south-east of Tibet. Now, in June, I’m passing through...
Drastic Changes In Himalayas Deserve Political Attention
The key sentence in the most comprehensive report to date on the Hindu Kush Himalayan “cryosphere”, or icy areas, is...
How Climate Change Worsens Avalanches In The Himalayas
In recent months, numerous reports of dangerous avalanches in the Himalayas have made the headlines. These sudden releases of snow,...
Climate Change, Earthquakes And Hydropower In The Himalayas
The Himalayas are relatively new mountains, created by the Indian tectonic plate being pushed under the Eurasian plate, causing it...
‘Himalayan Glaciers Warming At Alarming Rate’
“I can assure you one thing that the mountains are changing. And they are changing very fast. There is something...
‘Ganga, Brahmaputra Flows To Reduce Due To Global Warming’
Source: PTI UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that major Himalayan rivers like the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, all...
Shrinking Glaciers Threaten Energy Transitions
As glaciers shrink and monsoon rainfall becomes more unpredictable due to climate change, uncertainty around the viability of hydropower projects...
Melting Glaciers: Who Is Responsible?
As the world’s glaciers melt rapidly, almost without exception, the global response to this existential threat is worryingly lethargic. This...
Third Of World Heritage Glaciers Under Threat
(Source: PTI) A third of the glaciers on the UNESCO World Heritage list are under threat, regardless of efforts to...
What Melting Tibetan Glaciers Reveal About Disease, Global Warming
As the Covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc worldwide in 2020, scientists scrambled to produce vaccines. Millions of lives were lost, even...
Saffron & Glaciers: Kashmir’s Women Scientists Lead Climate Action
Working in different fields of science and technology, Nasheeman Ashraf, Ulfat Majeed and Mehreen Khaleel are at the forefront of...
Glaciers In Karakoram Region Stable, Others Melting Faster: Govt
Glaciers in the Karakoram region are in a stable condition, but those feeding the Ganga and the Brahmaputra river basins...
World’s Glaciers Contain Less Ice Than Thought
Advances in satellite technology have revealed that the world's glaciers contain significantly less ice than previously thought, according to a...
Climate Change & Disasters On The Third Pole
In many ways, 2021 marked a new threshold for climate change-related disasters. Global headlines were monopolised by incidents of extreme...
Cooperation Is Key As Nations Deal With Glacial Floods
In the space of three months in early 2021, two glacial lakes in the Indian state of Uttarakhand burst their...
How Dust Can Melt Mountains & Change Seas
Asia’s largest freshwater reserve is disappearing. In the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, which is warming by 0.3-0.7 degrees Celsius above...
Clear Impact Of Climate Change In Uttarakhand Disaster
Under the weight of a suspected avalanche, a massive chunk of ice and frozen mud broke away from a glacier...
