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This was revealed by a new dataset released by the Kathmandu-based ICIMOD on Friday; Impacts from GLOF events have increased over threefold since the previous regional assessment.
Fifteen million people worldwide are at risk of glacial lake flooding, with two million of them in Pakistan, according to ...
Najboon Khatun looks up at the sky every day, searching for the possibility of rain. Clouds come and go without ...
Frozen water, in its various forms, bears the brunt of climate change. In the mountainous expanse of the Hindu Kush ...
Official data showed that since 1953’s Hillary-Norgay summit, around 7,000 mountaineers have successfully scaled Mt Everest while over 300 have ...
Ninety per cent of the global population lives in the Northern Hemisphere, above the Equator
Permanently frozen terrain covers 22% of the Earth’s surface. This area is more than 112 million square kilometres. People call ...
From Afghanistan to China, vanishing glaciers risk floods and drought for billions
With COP28 underway in Dubai, researchers say climate negotiations should pay more attention to mountain regions, particularly the Hindu Kush ...
