Arctic climate change update 2019
New observations confirm continued rapid warming in the Arctic, driving many of the changes underway in the region, including loss of sea ice and glacier coverage, as well as changes in terrestrial and
Glaciers
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Pollution clouds threaten glaciers, health: UN
A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns around the world and threatening health and food supplies, the UN reported Thursday.
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Himalayan water sharing system endangered
Modern practices are threatening to break up an unusual water tapping and water sharing process in Himachal Pradesh. Devised hundreds of years ago, it converted barren land in Spiti into fertile fields.
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Battle fatigue
The environmental implications of the border war in Siachen
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Breaking the ice on Antarctica
A RECENT find of fossils may help geologists break through the ice obscuring Antarctica's past. David Harwood of the University of Nebraska and his colleagues have collected fossils of marine
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Sinking planks
Phytoplankton production could damage oceanic ecosystems
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Gold diggers
Mining company plans to move three glaciers in Chile
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Ice does not lie
Says the eminent Alaskan scientist Maynard Miller. <font class='UCASE'>manu n kulkarni</font> visits this land of the midnight sun to know what causes its glaciers to recede and what endangers its rare wildlife
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In short
SC clears mill land sale: The Supreme Court (SC) has cleared the sale of mill land in Mumbai, setting aside an earlier Bombay High court order. The SC has upheld the Maharashtra government's
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Glaciating the climate debate
<p>The recent controversy on the IPCC report regarding Himalayan glaciers has been all over the media.
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Receding glaciers in Pakistan
Glaciers that feed the Indus River in Pakistan’s Karakoram mountains are melting faster than previously thought. Saleem Sheikh talks to the scientists behind the latest field research that contradicts earlier satellite studies showing glaciers are relatively stable.