UN World Water Development Report 2025
<p>For billions of people, mountain meltwater is essential for drinking water and sanitation, food and energy security, and the integrity of the environment. But today, as the world warms, glaciers are
Glaciers
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Climate change and security in South Asia: cooperating for peace
A GMACCC report warns that a recent drought in India which has affected over 330 million people – causing displacement and threatening farms –is just the first hint of how climate change could destabilise
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Method for determination of levoglucosan in snow and ice at trace concentration levels using ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with triple quadrupole mass spectrometry
<p>A method is developed for determination of levoglucosan at trace concentration levels in complex matrices of snow and ice samples. This method uses an injection mixture comprising acetonitrile and melt
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Climate vulnerability, hazards and risk: an integrated pilot study in Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh- synthesis report
This synthesis report brings together the various components from the pilot study on climate vulnerability, hazards and risk, completed for Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh. The report introduces an integrated
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Understanding the synergy between National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem and SAPCCs from Himalayan states
The report examines the National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem (NMSHE) in detail and explores its linkages with the Himalayan State Action Plans on Climate Change (SAPCCs). The report
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Recent glacier changes in the Kashmir Alpine Himalayas, India
<p>Using Landsat data at decadal interval (1980-2013), the glacier fluctuations (glacier area, equilibrium line altitude and specific mass balance) of nine benchmark glaciers in Kashmir Himalaya was estimated.
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding plying of vehicles to go Rohtang Pass for tourism purpose, Himachal Pradesh, 11/12/2015
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Court on its own Motion Vs. State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors. dated 11/12/2015 regarding plying of vehicles to go Rohtang Pass for tourism purpose.</p>
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Glacier response to North Atlantic climate variability during the Holocene
<p>Small glaciers and ice caps respond rapidly to climate variations, and records of their past extent provide information on the natural envelope of past climate variability. Millennial-scale trends in
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Mixing state and sources of submicron regional background aerosols in the northern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and the influence of biomass burning
<p>Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) was employed to obtain morphology, size, composition, and mixing state of background aerosols with diameter less than 1 µm in the northern Qinghai–Tibet
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Impact of Climate Change in Himalayas, 01/12/2015
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Impact of Climate Change in Himalayas, 01/12/2015. Under the Himalayan Glaciological Programme sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India,
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Tibet: Scientists warn of rapid climate change at 'roof of the world'
Lying 4,700m above sea level on the Tibetan plateau is Namtso Lake. It is held as holy by the region's Tibetan population and every year thousands of pilgrims walk around its shores. As one of the largest