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 …
Melting Himalayan glaciers and other climate change impacts pose a direct threat to the water and food security of more than 1.6 billion people in South Asia, according to preliminary findings of a new study financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute, …
Invasive weeds have become a major environmental concern at local, national, regional and global level. Very recently, the authors have noticed an exotic temperate weed in the Mussoorie hills i.e. Stevia ovata. It is spreading in moist, South-West hill slopes.
The first climate change conference of Himalayan nations was opened yesterday at Kathmandu by Nepal's prime minister Madhav Kumar with a warning about the dangers of melting glaciers, floods and violent storms for the region, according to a message received in Dhaka. The two-day conference - organised by the Government …
The Himalaya is one of the fastest changing regions of the world due to global warming. The mountains mighty glaciers, the source of large and important rivers such as the Ganga, Indus and Brahmaputra, are melting. In February 2009, Chinese scientists warned that glaciers on the Tibetan plateau are melting …
The Himalayas are a unique natural asset and the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) forms the major share of this. This report presents a set of guidelines and best practices for the governance and sustainable management of the Himalayan ecosystem.
WITH the clock ticking and less than a hundred days to go until ministers from around the world meet at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, now is the time for the UK and [South Asia/India/Bangladesh] to work together to get a climate deal that is fair to …
For a country, which gave the world perhaps the oldest medical care system, Ayurveda, boasts of a US $2 billion traditional medicine industry and has over 7 lakh registered traditional medicine practitioners, some alarming signals are emanating from the bio-diverse-rich Indian Himalayan region. The youngsters among the traditional healthcare practitioners …
South Asian ministers will gather in Nepal next week for talks on the threat that climate change poses to the Himalayas and to the 1.3 billion people dependent on water flowing from the mountains. Experts say the Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate and with months to go …
Poor crop yields, water shortages and more extreme temperatures are pushing rural villagers in Nepal closer to the brink as a result of climate change, a new report launched Oxfam, an international aid agency, aid, describing the situation "deeply worrying". In the report, "Even the Himalayas Have Stopped Smiling: Climate …
SHIRISH B. PRADHAN With an environmental calamity looming large because of Himalayan glaciers melting at a alarming rate, ministers of South Asian countries will meet here next week to explore the ways to check the phenomenon. As experts warned that 1.3 billion people in South Asia would be facing water …
India and China are likely to sign an agreement for joint research on Himalayan glaciers by the end of October this year, Union Forests and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Thursday. Ramesh, who is here on a four-day trip, said a Chinese delegation of environment scientists and officials will …
India and China have deferred signing an agreement for joint research on Himalayan glaciers till October-end. Union environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said a comprehensive accord will be drawn up when a Chinese delegation visits New Delhi. While the signs of fast melting of glaciers which feed …
K. Venkateshwarlu HYDERABAD: The Himalayan Quail, a nondescript species with a trademark red bill that was last recorded in the western Himalayas in Uttaranchal in 1876, figures prominently in BirdLife International
This presentation by Anil V Kulkarni, Coordinator, Snow and Glacier Project, Space Application Centre (SAC) Ahmedabad delivered at CSE's South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Aug 27, 2009 highlights the impact of climate change on Himalayan glaciers. Shows that Himalyas have approximately 33,000 sq km of glaciers but fragmentation of …
Worst victim of global climate change -- Bangladesh-- where incidents of typhoons, flooding and rising sea levels become very common, is now facing increased threat of an age-old danger, the biggest threat to children - drowning. Statistics show that at least 17,000 children drown and thousands more are left permanently …
Joining issue with villagers of 10 panchayats, the Himalaya Niti Abhiyan has also lent support to the cause of villagers who are opposing the 30 MW captive thermal plant being set up at Bagheri by the JP Associates. This organisation was a coalition of environment activists and community movement leaders …
Water shortages present the greatest future threat to the viability of Pakistan as a state and a society, warns a new book on Pakistan. Author Michael Kugelman argues that
