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 melting faster than ever, making the water cycle more unpredictable and extreme. And because of glacial retreat, floods, droughts, …
This report presents several case studies from selected natural and cultural World Heritage sites around the globe in order to illustrate the impacts of climate change that have already been observed and those that can be expected in the future. For each of the featured sites, ongoing and planned adaptation …
Low-elevation coastal zones (leczs) are areas at an elevation of 10 metres or less above sea level. Although leczs account for just 2 per cent of the world's total land area, they contain about 634 million people: 10 per cent of the global population. About 75 per cent of people …
global warming is for real, say researchers at Ohio State University, usa. They have presented startling evidence of global warming affecting the tropics at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lonnie Thompson, along with his team, has been carrying out research on glaciers and …
on february 2, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ipcc) released its much awaited Fourth Assessment Report. With an unprecedented confidence of 90 per cent, it asserted that climate change is result of human activities. The panel's 2001 Third Assessment Report had put the probability of climate change resulting from …
In 2003, when he was appointed permanent secretary to the uk government's treasury, Nicholas Stern was the World Bank's chief economist.In July 2005, the uk government gave him the job of studying climate change from an economics perspective. The resultant Stern Review was released on October 30, 2006
The shrine of Amarnath in Jammu and Kashmir hit the headlines for a strange reason this summer. The shiva ling, a naturally-formed ice stalagmite in the Amarnath cave, melted. Public attention was suddenly called to global warming. Himalayan glaciers cover an area of about 23,000 sq km in India
From atop the 13,600-ft high windswept crest of a steep, serrated ridge, the Samudra Tapu glacier is a giant blanket of ice and snow, covering the bowl-shaped valley between jagged Himalayan peaks in the wilderness of Himachal Pradesh. Gleaming against an azure sky, the gigantic glacier-the second biggest in the …
earth's high-altitude glaciers in the tropical regions are in trouble. They might disappear soon, according to the first-ever comparison of climate records between the Himalayan and the Andean glaciers by a team of scientists from four universities in the us . The scientists analysed ice cores and concluded that glacial …
Every year in from April to July, over one lakh visitors trek 20 km along the Ganga to reach at 14,000 feet above sea level, the Gomukh glacier, the source of one of India's mightiest rivers. Against the backdrop of snow-capped peaks, Gomukh has offered both spiritual and visual sustenance …
Pakistan has put on hold a meet to bring together scientists from India, Pakistan and China to discuss setting up a science park at Siachen glacier since the Karakoram range in the Himalaya has been inadequately studied. RELATED STORY • Leader : woolly headed environmentalism [March 31, 2004] Jack Shroder, …
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 amendment to the rules for development of the
Greenland's ice sheet could melt even before the stipulated 1,000 years, scientist told a conference in St Louis, usa. A study by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa) and the University of Kansas found that the amount of ice melt making its way into the Atlantic Ocean from Greenland …
THE controversy regarding a gold mining proposal in the Chilean Andes led to a violent clash on November 11, 2005, in Santiago between military police and protestors gathered to present a petition against the project to the government. The proposed Pascua-Lama mine is to come up in the Huasco. It …
there is real bad news on the global warming front. Stealthily-rising temperature has taken its toll, now, on Siberia's wetlands. They lay frozen for millennia, until now. Receding glaciers or ice-cover are already legion; these no longer qualify as good copy. But what's happening in Siberia has serious ecological consequences. …
When ice melts in the glacial tarn of Roopkund, located 5,000 metres above sea level in Chamoli district, Uttaranchal, hundreds of corpses can be seen floating. Thus gets exposed a mystery that dates back to more than 60 years and has begun to be understood only recently. In 1942, a …
owing to rising temperatures due to global warming, the Parbati glacier in Himachal Pradesh is melting fast. A study of satellite images shows the glacier has retreated by 578 metres between 1990 and 2001, a decline of almost 52 metres per year. This is bad news, as the glacier is …
