State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Glacial Melt
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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.
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Troubled waters: Can a bridge be built over the Indus?
Whereas once the Indus Waters Treaty could correctly be described as a beacon of light in an otherwise gloomy relationship between India and Pakistan, this is no longer so. The odds now are that the crumbling IWT will be a cause for further tension and conflict between India and Pakistan.
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Rise in sea level will hit 5 districts in Cauvery delta region
CHENNAI: One metre rise in sea level will seriously hit small islands, coastal and delta regions and low lying areas, said Sujatha Byravan, Senior Researcher, Centre for Development Finance on Wednesday. Delivering the special address at the nationwide series of media seminars
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The glaciers of the Hindu Kush-himalayan region
News of glaciers retreating in the high mountains of Asia has intensified concerns about impacts of climate change on the hydrological systems of central, south, and east Asia. The overall purpose of this review is to provide a summary of the scientific knowledge about glacier melt/retreat in the high mountains of Asia.
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Lichenometric studies and Pindari glacier retreat
Lichenometric studies in the vicinity of the Pindari Glacier have been recently reported. (Correspondence)
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Contribution potential of glaciers to water availability in different climate regimes
Although reliable figures are often missing, considerable detrimental changes due to shrinking glaciers are universally expected for water availability in river systems under the influence of ongoing global climate change. We estimate the contribution potential of seasonally delayed glacier melt water to total water availability in large river systems.