In June 2023, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) released its latest report on the cryosphere (regions where…
Jammu and Kashmir has been witnessing dry weather over the past six weeks, posing a significant threat to the region’s…
Vikram Katoch is visibly worried: the vast valley of Lahaul-Spiti in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh is almost…
In May this year, I followed the Hengduan mountains into the south-east of Tibet. Now, in June, I’m passing through…
The key sentence in the most comprehensive report to date on the Hindu Kush Himalayan “cryosphere”, or icy areas, is…
In recent months, numerous reports of dangerous avalanches in the Himalayas have made the headlines. These sudden releases of snow,…
The Himalayas are relatively new mountains, created by the Indian tectonic plate being pushed under the Eurasian plate, causing it…
“I can assure you one thing that the mountains are changing. And they are changing very fast. There is something…
Source: PTI UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that major Himalayan rivers like the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, all…
As glaciers shrink and monsoon rainfall becomes more unpredictable due to climate change, uncertainty around the viability of hydropower projects…
As the world’s glaciers melt rapidly, almost without exception, the global response to this existential threat is worryingly lethargic. This…
(Source: PTI) A third of the glaciers on the UNESCO World Heritage list are under threat, regardless of efforts to…
As the Covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc worldwide in 2020, scientists scrambled to produce vaccines. Millions of lives were lost, even…
Working in different fields of science and technology, Nasheeman Ashraf, Ulfat Majeed and Mehreen Khaleel are at the forefront of…
Glaciers in the Karakoram region are in a stable condition, but those feeding the Ganga and the Brahmaputra river basins…
Advances in satellite technology have revealed that the world's glaciers contain significantly less ice than previously thought, according to a…
In many ways, 2021 marked a new threshold for climate change-related disasters. Global headlines were monopolised by incidents of extreme…
In the space of three months in early 2021, two glacial lakes in the Indian state of Uttarakhand burst their…
Asia’s largest freshwater reserve is disappearing. In the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, which is warming by 0.3-0.7 degrees Celsius above…
Under the weight of a suspected avalanche, a massive chunk of ice and frozen mud broke away from a glacier…
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