Thematic Digest
Himalayan glaciers are melting due to global warming and climatologists believe this could also be true of permafrost in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR).
We must assume that climate change that the climate change also affects the state of permafrost in the Himalayas, with consequences for landscape.
In its “war” on hazardous air pollution, China’s government has a dilemma: It needs to be open about air quality data to hold polluters to account, but worries that too much bad news from alternative, independent sources could stoke public unrest.
Ten new Wetlands of International Importance in five countries have been designated to celebrate World Wetlands Day 2017, observed every year on February 2. World Wetlands Day marks the date in 1971 when the Convention on Wetlands, known as the Ramsar Convention, was adopted in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shore of the Caspian Sea.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Regional Association for Asia is holding its four-yearly session, amid warnings that the region – which stretches from the Arctic to the Equator over the Himalayas down into low lying coastal areas– needs to do more to prepare for extreme weather, climate change and water shocks.
Newly published research shows regional climate variability caused an "unusual" period in which some of New Zealand's glaciers grew bigger, while glaciers worldwide were shrinking.
Call for abstracts/proposals: It is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in the fields of Water Technology. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving Water Technology related techniques.Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 20th February 2017
This conference will encourage trans-disciplinary communication on issues related to the nature of water, and its use and exploitation by society. The conference is motivated by the need to bridge the gap between the broad spectrum of social political sciences and humanistic disciplines and specialists in physical sciences, biology, environmental sciences and health, among others.