Alaska sees record temperatures in heatwave
An "all-time high" temperature record has been set in the US state of Alaska, despite much of the country sitting in the Arctic circle. Temperatures peaked at 32.22 Celsius (90F) on 4 July at an airport
Glacial Melt
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Snow and glaciers of the Himalayas
<p>The Himalayan glaciers are a valuable national and global resource – they possess the largest concentration of ice outside of the Polar Regions; regulate global climate; feed most of northern India’s perennial rivers; and are an important indicator of climate change. However, this source of water is not permanent, as glacial dimensions change with the climate.
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Glaciers start melting in GB
With the increase in temperature, the glaciers in Gilgit-Baltistan have started melting, resulting in significant increase in flows in rivers, streams and nullahs. Usually, the temperature increases in Himalayan, Hindukush and Karakuram ranges of mountains soon after March, but this time the weather remained cold until last week due to rains and snowfall. The electricity generation and power
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Tool to predict tsunamis developed
disasters strike when they are least expected, causing untold devastation and disruption of life, besides laying waste huge swathes of land. Now, meteorologists have developed sophisticated tools to help minimise casualties and damage.
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Glaciers melting 100 times faster
The world
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Glacial lakes and glacial lake outburst floods in Nepal
<p>Glacier thinning and retreat in the Himalayas has resulted in the formation of new glacial lakes and the enlargement of existing lakes due to the accumulation of meltwater behind loosely consolidated end moraine dams.
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Man Versus Nature
The costs of our lethargy in dealing with environmental issues are becoming increasingly higher. No water, no future; no food, no future; no energy, no future; no environment, degraded future. Thus might one with a penchant for the pithy explain the nexus between these essentials and the gravity of the emergent global crisis. The world is indeed entering an era of scarcity.
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Brahmaputra discharge at risk: experts
GUWAHATI, Jan 18
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Majority of alpine glaciers to disappear by 2100?
Paris : Global Warming may wipe out three-quarters of Europe
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Last chance to hold Greenland back from tipping point
<p> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" /> <title></title> <meta content="OpenOffice.org 3.2 (Linux)" name="GENERATOR" /> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> <p><font size="3"><i>New data and models show that Greenland's ice cap, the world's second largest, is on track to hit a point of no r
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10,000 Himalayan glaciers showing signs of retreat
AMIDST controversies over the melting of Himalayan glaciers, a study by a scientist from the Indian Institute o f S c i e n c e, B a n g a l o r e, claimed that nearly 10,000 glaciers in the Himalayan mountain system, spread across India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, China and Myanmar, have recorded signs of retreat.