The HKH Snow Update 2025 highlights a significant decline in seasonal snow across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, with snow persistence 23.6% below normal — the lowest in 23 years. This trend, now in its third consecutive year, threatens water security for nearly two billion people. All twelve major river …
Sacred groves are (small or large) patches of vegetation of varying sizes, conserved on the basis of the religious beliefs of the community. In India 13,720 sacred groves have been identified from 19 states and named differently in various parts of India as Law lyngdhoh in Meghalaya, Kovil Kadu in …
The PM emphasised that despite the recent criticism of the IPCC, the debate did not challenge its core projections on greenhouse gas accumulations affecting temperature, rainfall and sea level rise Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed disappointment with the Copenhagen climate change summit but expressed satisfaction that the Copenhagen Accord had …
Backing R K Pachauri, the beleaguered chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), who is under criticism for the goof-up in the organisation
New Delhi: Environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday said the Indian government fully backed R K Pachauri, the beleaguered chairman of UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Even as he took potshots at the weakness of the global climate science panel over the recent controversial revelations, Ramesh said the government …
Hasan Suroor LONDON: Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), on Wednesday admitted that its credibility was damaged by the controversy over its 2007 report, which falsely claimed that the Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035. But he refused to apologise, saying he was …
The Union Government is in the process of formulating a policy to save the environment of the Himalayan region and has held consultations with States in this regard. The Environment Ministry in a press release said that consultations were held with the Himalayan States through the Almora-based G.B. Pant Institute …
Facing severe criticism in the wake of revelations that its landmark 2007 report contained some highly embarrassing mistakes, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Wednesday defended its procedures and said any report as wide-ranging and voluminous as the one it produced could not be
This paper presents a method for deriving the snowline altitude using a combined analysis of terrain elevation and multispectral Advanced Wide Field Sensor (AWiFS) data from the RESOURCESAT-1 satellite, launched by India on 17 October 2003. AWiFS is a unique instrument capable of acquiring imagery of the world repeatedly every …
The latest statement by Delhi Platform on Himalayan glacial melt controversy. Says that critics have missed key issues and have ignored impacts & perceptions of people who live in the vicinity of glaciers. This document contains the statement by Delhi Platform on the Himalayan glaciers issue. It recommends both the …
Although flash floods are by their nature difficult to predict and control, it is possible to reduce the risk to lives and property through different measures. This information sheets summarises the major causes of flash floods in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region, and the different approaches that can be used to …
How do climate fluctuations affect DDT and hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) distribution in the global scale? In this study, the interactions between climate variations and depositions of DDT and HCH in ice cores from Mt. Everest (the Tibetan Plateau), Mt. Muztagata (the eastern Pamirs) and the Rocky Mountains were investigated. All data …
The present investigation deals with effect of structural composition of agroforestry system, number of woody perennial involved in the sytem and the management of practices plays a major role in influencing the biomass level, carbon storage, CO2 mitigation potential and total carbon sequestration in trees.
Sunita Narain, director, Centre of Science and Environment, says that her past battles with IPCC chief R.K. Pachauri do not detract from the truth of climate change and that climate skeptics should not take advantage of the `date mistake' in the IPCC report on Himalayan glaciers. Excerpts from an interview: …
