Back to
12 Jan 2024 | Climate change

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

0 mins Read

70% Complete

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

4 Jan 2024 Livelihoods
Alpine plants may alter height or leaf size to cope with early snow-melt conditions

Early snow-melting triggers complex responses in alpine plant species, influencing traits like leaf composition and resource acquisition strategies, a recent ...

The threat from melting glaciers

ON the steep slope of a glacier jutting through the Hunza valley in Pakistan’s mountainous far north, Tariq Jamil measures ...

3 Jan 2024 Drought
افغانستان یکی از آسیب‌پذیرترین کشورها در برابرتغییرات اقلیمی است

رویدادهای هولناک خشک‌سالی، توفان و سیل در بسیاری از مناطق جهان از اثر تغییرات اقلیمی تشدید شده است. با

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.

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 ...

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 ...

5 Feb 2024 Izabella Koziell
Global scientists convene in Kathmandu for IPBES nexus assessment

This is the first time an IPBES assessment meeting is being held in South Asia.

19 Dec 2023 Global
COP28 spotlights key climate battle: Saving Himalayan ice

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