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A glacier baby is born: Mating glaciers to replace water lost to climate change

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A farmer and a village leader in Pakistan’s highlands decided it was time to try to make a glacier baby.

11 Dec 2023 Video News
Video: South Asia’s glacial lakes at risk of flooding

Global warming is causing glacial lakes in mountainous regions of South Asia to flood suddenly--sometimes with fatal results.

10 Dec 2023 GLOFs
2m face Glacial flooding in Pakistan

Fifteen million people worldwide are at risk of glacial lake flooding, with two million of them in Pakistan, according to ...

Will climbers have to brave Everest without Sherpas?

Mountain work can be well paid by Nepali standards but traditional guides are finding it less attractive

29 Dec 2023 Cryosphere and water
Around 500 climbers, including four Indians, conquer Mt Everest in 70th anniversary year of first successful summit

Official data showed that since 1953’s Hillary-Norgay summit, around 7,000 mountaineers have successfully scaled Mt Everest while over 300 have ...

全球可持续研究与创新大会上传出中国声音

近日,第四届全球可持续研究与创新大会(SRI 2024)在芬兰赫尔辛基开幕,来自世界各地的逾两千名专家学者和行业精英齐聚一堂,共商可持续的联合研究与创新之道。

Permafrost thaw, a ticking time bomb beneath our feet

Permanently frozen terrain covers 22% of the Earth’s surface. This area is more than 112 million square kilometres. People call ...

15 Dec 2023 GLOFs
More Than 7,000 Lives Lost to Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in High Mountain Asia

This was revealed by a new dataset released by the Kathmandu-based ICIMOD on Friday; Impacts from GLOF events have increased ...

2 Dec 2023 Izabella Koziell
PM Dahal moderates high-level roundtable meeting to addresses urgent climate crisis concerns for mountainous nations

Nepal hosted a high-level roundtable meeting on the sidelines of the Conference of the Parties (COP) 28 in Dubai on ...