Tag: Himalayas

Earth's glaciers could face a staggering loss of up to 40% of their mass with a 1.5 degrees Celsius temperature increase by the year 2100, according to a new study.

Winter rain and snow in Western Himalayas could vary by almost 50 per cent depending on the air pressure gradient over the...

Already a known fact that Himalayas are melting, a new study from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) shows that the glacier-capped...

The Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO) located at Hanle near Leh in Ladakh is becoming one of the promising observatory sites globally, according to a...

Aimed at carrying out climate change impact analysis and disaster mitigation planning in water bodies in the Himalayan region over time, India released the...

Black carbon deposits from factories cooking and vehicles that accelerate the effects of climate change and speed up melting of Himalayan glaciers can be...

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 real-time monitoring of Himalayan glacial catchments helps in better understanding flood risk in the region and get advance warning of early flood that...

Scientists in India found that Himalayas are not uniform and assume different physical and mechanical properties (a property present in crystals called anisotropy) in...

It is the second in recent times that the Himalayan region saw floods in large scale. The first one was the 2013 cloudburst in...