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Frozen water, in its various forms, bears the brunt of climate change. In the mountainous expanse of the Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH), spanning 3,500 km (2,175 miles) across Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan, a noticeable manifestation of climate change is the profound impact on glaciers.
Permanently frozen terrain covers 22% of the Earth’s surface. This area is more than 112 million square kilometres. People call ...
Experts at the climate summit in Dubai, UAE highlighted the alarming glacial retreat in Bhutan and the Hindu Kush Himalayan ...
This was revealed by a new dataset released by the Kathmandu-based ICIMOD on Friday; Impacts from GLOF events have increased ...
Fifteen million people worldwide are at risk of glacial lake flooding, with two million of them in Pakistan, according to ...
With COP28 underway in Dubai, researchers say climate negotiations should pay more attention to mountain regions, particularly the Hindu Kush ...
From Afghanistan to China, vanishing glaciers risk floods and drought for billions
Ninety per cent of the global population lives in the Northern Hemisphere, above the Equator
ON the steep slope of a glacier jutting through the Hunza valley in Pakistan’s mountainous far north, Tariq Jamil measures ...
