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At the Paris climate conference in December 2015, 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal. This set out a global action plan to limit global warming to well below 2OC and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5OC. But despite the global efforts, there are forecasts that the world global temperature may rise above 1.5OC.
As climate change melts glaciers, a threat looms large in mountainous areas—glacial lake outburst floods, which pose great dangers to ...
अन्नपूर्ण क्षेत्रका दलबहादुर गुरुङ अहिले ७० वर्षको उमेर पुग्दा बाल्यकालमा हुँदा जस्तो हिमालमा हिउँ पर्न छाडेको अनुभव सुनाउँछन्। जलवायु परिवर्तनका कारण ...
Frozen water, in its various forms, bears the brunt of climate change. In the mountainous expanse of the Hindu Kush ...
नेपालका हिमताल फुट्नसक्ने उच्च जोखिममा रहेको विभिन्न अध्ययनहरूले पुष्टि गरे पनि जोखिम न्यूनीकरणमा भने चुनौती देखिएको छ। जोखिम न्यूनीकरणका लागि ...
In late April, environment ministers from eight countries of the Hindu Kush Himalayan region were supposed to gather for a ...
Of total 3,624 glacial lakes identified by the inventory, 1,410 lakes are equal to or larger than 0.02 sq km ...
A little over a decade ago, the Himalayan region was considered by the IPCC a 'black hole for data'. Small ...
This was revealed by a new dataset released by the Kathmandu-based ICIMOD on Friday; Impacts from GLOF events have increased ...