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 …
Union environment ministry is all set to launch the Long-Term Ecological Observatories (LTEO) to bridge the gap of insufficient data on impact of climate change on different regions in the country. “The ecosystems in the country is diverse and there is not enough data available on what impact climate change …
Dr Vir Singh, Director of the Department of Environmental Science in the prestigious GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, says fortification of photosynthesis is the key to mitigate the climate change challenge. Dr Vir Singh, while talking to The Tribune, said increasing concentration of the carbon dioxide in the …
A new report indicates the combustion of fossil fuels is gravely affecting the alpine tundra's climate Fossil fuel and biomass, which are sources of black carbon, are accelerating glacier meltdown across the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau, a new research report has found. The report by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) …
Apart from global warming, another factor that aggravates the melting of glaciers in the Third Pole is air pollution. China and India are among the worst-ranked countries in air pollution. The region covering the mighty Himalaya-Hindukush mountains and the Tibetan plateau happens to be the third largest ice-covered region on …
The government has underlined the need for an interface on the real problems of the Himalayan region, as it will help in proper planning, an official statement said. Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave today said the Himalayan range has been suffering from the ill-effects of pollution “the most” even as …
Over 1.30 lakh deaths due to climate change have been projected in India with changes in methods of food production, a study conducted by the University of Oxford revealed. The Lok Sabha was informed about the report on Tuesday. "The study conducted by the University of Oxford on 'global and …
The Himalayan glaciers feed major Asian river systems sustaining the lives of more than 800 million people. Though the rates of retreat of individual glaciers are uncertain, on the whole the Himalayan glaciers have been losing mass at an increasing rate over the past few decades. With the changing climate, …
The study conducted by Oxford University has projected losses in some crops, change in the composition of the forest and spread of malaria in new areas, said Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave An Oxford University study has projected more than 1.30 lakh climate change-related deaths in India due to changes …
The government expects to spend a massive Rs 5,60,000 crore on various river interlinking (ILR) projects, according to a statement by Minister of State, Water Resources, Sanjeev Balyan in the Lok Sabha on Monday. Though this is only a projection and not timebound — as none of these projects are …
Minister for Forests, Environment and Ecology, Chaudhary Lal Singh today said that Government is undertaking various ‘Missions’ for the broader understanding and responses on climate change across the State. Speaking at a review meeting with the officials of the Department of Forests, Ecology and Environment, the Minister said that under …
In a unique study showing how different regions of the planet may react to global warming differently, researchers have shown that people in the Himalayas will have to contend with flooding, while those in the Andes will have longer dry spells and less water. The researchers, from ETH, Zurich in …
Changes in the hydrology of high-altitude catchments may have major consequences for downstream water supply. Based on model projections with a higher spatiotemporal resolution and degree of process complexity than any previous intercontinental comparative study, we show that the impacts of climate change cannot be generalized. These impacts range from …
In the future, people in the Himalayas will have to contend with flooding, while those in the Andes will have longer dry spells and less water. These are the conclusions drawn by researchers, who have used measurement data and climate models to closely examine water balance in both of these …
NAINITAL: With the discovery in Uttarakhand recently, the total number of varieties of butterflies found in the hill state is 453. Of the three new varieties, two were discovered and photographed in Nainital whereas the third was found in Haldwani. Founder of Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal Peter Smetacek confirmed the …
Slow-melting of glaciers due to global warming may cause huge floods in Bhutan in the future and result in loss of keystone species which may encourage probable animal poachers to hunt in this country, Indian researchers say. "The effect on India can be severe. In fact there are earlier instances …
In February last year, an ice wall collapsed on Sonam post at 21,000 feet on the northern Siachen glacier, burying 10 soldiers of the 19 Madras regiment. That was only the latest in a growing number of avalanches on the world’s highest battlefield that has forced the Army to review …
Group has been collecting waste from the trail for the past three years now A group of 25 trekkers collected a whopping 2,127 kilogram of waste during their trek to Roopkund this year. The waste collected and segregated was brought back to the base camp and transported to an NGO, …
We present the measurements of cloud-base height variations over Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Science, Nainital (79.45E, 29.37N, 1958 m amsl) obtained from Vaisala Ceilometer, during the nearly year-long Ganges Valley Aerosol Experiment (GVAX). The cloud-base measurements are analysed in conjunction with collocated measurements of rainfall, to study the possible …
Zoological Survey of India has started five long-term monitoring plots in the Himalayas to document the impact of climate change on animal world. The project, funded by the Ministry for environment, forest and climate change, will monitor indicators in species like fish, butterflies, bees and other insects to find how …
Kolkata: In 2015, Indian taxonomists discovered 262 species of animals that are new to science and were not known to exist. These include 26 fish species, six frogs, four lizards, 16 types of crabs, 33 species of spiders and a whole range of insects. This takes the biodiversity of India …
