Tag: Himalayas
Does Atlantic Air Alter India’s food and water supply
Winter rain and snow in Western Himalayas could vary by almost 50 per cent depending on the air pressure gradient over the...
Third Pole Shows Alarming Warming Trend
Already a known fact that Himalayas are melting, a new study from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) shows that the glacier-capped...
Trans- Himalayan Region, A Promising Astronomical site
The Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO) located at Hanle near Leh in Ladakh is becoming one of the promising observatory sites globally, according to a...
Glacial Lake Atlas Helps in Better Planning of Himalayan Water Bodies
Aimed at carrying out climate change impact analysis and disaster mitigation planning in water bodies in the Himalayan region over time, India released the...
Curb Black Carbon deposits to slow down Himalayan Melting
Black carbon deposits from factories cooking and vehicles that accelerate the effects of climate change and speed up melting of Himalayan glaciers can be...
Third Pole May Witness More Flash Floods
Flash floods may triple in the “Third Pole” with the ongoing climate change posing a danger, according to researchers from the Xinjiang Institute of...
Satellite based Himalayan-monitoring helps in better flood understanding
Satellite-based real-time monitoring of Himalayan glacial catchments helps in better understanding flood risk in the region and get advance warning of early flood that...
Non-uniformity of Himalayas trigger major tremors
Scientists in India found that Himalayas are not uniform and assume different physical and mechanical properties (a property present in crystals called anisotropy) in...
Uttarakhand Flood, a Himalayan Blunder of Events
It is the second in recent times that the Himalayan region saw floods in large scale. The first one was the 2013 cloudburst in...
Glacial melting fast in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh region
Glaciers in the Himalaya are already known to be melting and a new study has found that glaciers in the regions of Jammu, Kashmir...