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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Glaciers to melt by 2035? It was a green goof-up
Awarning that climate change will melt most Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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Debate heats up over IPCC melting glaciers claim
Glaciologists are arguing over how a highly contentious claim about the speed at which glaciers are melting came to be included in the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Sifting climate facts from speculation
It was a dramatic declaration: glaciers across much of the Himalayas may be gone by 2035. When New Scientist heard this comment from a leading Indian glaciologist, we reported it. That was in 1999. The claim later appeared in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's most recent report - and it turns out that our article is the primary published source. (Editorial)
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MoEF skates on thin ice
India
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Defining 'Himalayan catchment' for better understanding of climate change impact on Himalayan glaciers and river flows
River flow response to the changing climate is a major concern in the Himalayan region. Present understanding regarding the impact of glacier shrinkage on the river flow variations is summarized in the
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Black soot and the survival of Tibetan glaciers
<p>We find evidence that black soot aerosols deposited on Tibetan glaciers have been a significant contributing factor to observed rapid glacier retreat. Reduced black soot emissions, in addition to reduced greenhouse gases, may be required to avoid demise of Himalayan glaciers and retain the benefits of glaciers for seasonal fresh water supplies.</p> <p><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/106/52/22114.full.pdf+html" target="_blank">Original Source</a></p>
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Drying springs a cause for concern
The receding of glaciers and drying up of springs are the major concerns shared by one and all here.
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Black soot and the survival of Tibetan glaciers
We find evidence that black soot aerosols deposited on Tibetan glaciers have been a significant contributing factor to observed rapid glacier retreat. Reduced black soot emissions, in addition to reduced greenhouse gases, may be required to avoid demise of Himalayan glaciers and retain the benefits of glaciers for seasonal fresh water supplies.
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Sikkim glaciers cited as evidence of global warming
Contrary to the claims of Sikkim Glacier Commission that there has been no significant decrease in glaciers in Sikkim due to global warming and climate change, an international media house has published a news item asserting evidence that glaciers in Sikkim and other Himalayan regions are disappearing due to climate change.
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Burdened by Soviet legacy, nations spar over water rights
As scientists worry about the prospect of a catastrophic flood from Lake Sarez in the Pamir Mountains, agricultural communities on the plains below face a very different problem. This arid region in Central Asia has inherited a set of resource blunders made decades ago by the Soviet Union. And since the Soviet collapse in the 1990s, competition for fresh water has increased.