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19 Dec 2023 | Global

COP28 spotlights key climate battle: Saving Himalayan ice

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From Afghanistan to China, vanishing glaciers risk floods and drought for billions

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.

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

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

2 Dec 2023 Global
Himalayas need help, COP28 talks must respond, says U.N. chief Antonio Guterres

Almost 240 million people depend on the glaciers and 10 major rivers, such as Indus, Ganga, and Brahmaputra, originating in ...

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Snow cover across Northern Hemisphere has declined in last 4 decades due to changing climate: Study

Ninety per cent of the global population lives in the Northern Hemisphere, above the Equator

14 Dec 2023 Izabella Koziell
An oily aftertaste

At COP28, countries reached an agreement on moving away from fossil fuels. Whether this will be enough remains to be ...

13 Feb 2024 GRAPE
Nepal Farmers Face Another Year of ‘Agricultural Drought’, Threatening Food Security

Najboon Khatun looks up at the sky every day, searching for the possibility of rain. Clouds come and go without ...

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 ...

7 Dec 2023 Pema Gyamtsho
Himalaya : « Nous n’avons pas le luxe d’attendre » !

Le Directeur de l’ICIMOD s’exprime dans une interview pour la presse himalayenne. Il partage quelques enjeux majeurs de l’arc Hindu ...