Tibetan landscape may soon disappear

In the 1980s, when very few people visited Tibet, Michael Buckley, an Australian settled in Canada, wrote the first Lonely Planet guide to the …

Sea levels along Indian coast rising at faster rate than global average: WMO report

Such a sea-level rise could have major consequences for the millions of people living along the Indian coastline

Grasslands, forests and glaciers decreased in the Kedarnath-Joshimath region over 3 decades

Glacial decrease in Kedarnath and the surrounding region can be attributed to increase in surface radiative temperature & runoff, shows study

Himalayan meltdown: Number of glaciers in Hindu Kush Himalayan region is rising

Rapid warming of the region leads to not only melting of glaciers but also fragmentation, says the area’s first-ever assessment

From glacier melting to rise in glacial lakes, eastern Himalaya most hit by climate change

Among the 25,614 glacial lakes identified in five major river basins of Hindu Kush Himalayas, Brahmaputra Basin has the highest number of glacial …

Melting uncertainty

Debris cover also affects glacial retreat rate

Who moved my science?

Stranded at top

Rohtang Pass faces an uncertain future as Himachal Pradesh drags its feet over introducing a CNG transport system in the highly eco-sensitive area

More livestock, more carbon dioxide, less ice: The world’s climate change progress since 2019 is (mostly) bad news

Especially troubling is the unprecedented surge in climate-related disasters since 2019

Slow death

World’s glaciers are melting fast, but not so in Asia

New avian influenza strain in Southeast Asia ‘travelling fast’, warns FAO

In less than six months after first reported in China, the H5N6 virus has been detected in poultries in Lao and Vietnam

Flow fact

Receding Himalayan glaciers would not affect river flow

Atmospheric rivers are hitting the Arctic more often and increasingly melting its sea ice

Sea ice loss also contributes to global warming and to extreme storms that cause economic damage well beyond the Arctic

Can fast-moving glaciers contribute to sea-level rise?

Sea-level rise depends on how meltwater drainage operates and modulates the speeds of glaciers

NASA analysis estimates unavoidable rise in ocean levels in the future

Melting of polar ice sheets has the potential to accelerate the rise in sea levels

Glacial melt? Need more studies

Ministries differ on how serious the melting of Himalayan glaciers is

Extreme continent: New WMO report paints alarming picture of climate emergency in Asia

The effects of climate events on Asia in 2022 were much more pronounced, with an increase in the number of fatalities, people affected and …

A submarine robot gives close up of Doomsday glacier, finds more trouble beneath it

It is one of the glaciers on the continent that exhibits the quickest and most unstable changes

What genes do we share with fruit flies, roundworms?

Study comparing the human genome with that of fruit flies and roundworms can offer insights into how the information in the human genome …

Glaciers in the Alps are melting faster than ever — and 2022 was their worst summer yet

This year Switzerland’s glaciers have lost an average of 6.2 per cent of their ice

Glacier through drone's eye

Researchers use new technology to gather data in rugged, inaccessible Himalayan terrain

Himalayan glaciers are thinning

ISRO’s analysis needs further investigation to conclude trend

The last 125 km

Sea ice on both poles at record low, finds WMO report

Antarctic sea ice cover at record low for 2nd consecutive year; Arctic sea ice extent is also at an all-time minimum 

‘Ganga basin temperatures to rise by 1-2°C by 2050’

Eddy Moors, who heads the Earth System Sciences and Climate Change group at Alterra Wageningen University and Research Center in the Netherlands, …