UN World Water Development Report 2025
<p>For billions of people, mountain meltwater is essential for drinking water and sanitation, food and energy security, and the integrity of the environment. But today, as the world warms, glaciers are
Glaciers
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Disturbing climate changes in Kashmir
Firdous Syed
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Volcano erupts in Iceland
REYKJAVIK (Iceland): Authorities evacuated hundreds of people after a volcano erupted beside a glacier in southern Iceland, Iceland's civil protection agency said on Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
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UN launches independent review of climate panel
The United Nations launched an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has come under much criticism in the recent months. The decision was announced by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri in the wake of a report by the body which erroneously claimed that Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035.
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Climate change and its impact on the Himalayan glaciers
In 2004, I visited the Chorabari Glacier on an expedition under the leadership of M. Kuhle. Thus, I have read the paper by R. K. Chaujar with great interest1. In agreement with Chaujar1, we also recognized different latero-frontal moraines around Kedarnath. Because younger glacial history was not the primary aim of our expedition, we did not differentiate
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Application of remote sensing and GIS in glacier retreat: a case study of Warwan sub-basin, Chenab basin
This document contains the presentation by Rupal M. Brahmbhatt, A.V. Kulkarni, B.P. Rathore & et al on "Application of Remote sensing and GIS in glacier retreat: A case study of Warwan sub-basin, Chenab basin", presented at National Climate Research Conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
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Snow cover monitoring and snow distribution in Sikkim Himalayas
This document contains the presentation by Smriti Basnett, A.V. Kulkarni, B.P. Rathore & et al on Snow cover monitoring and snow distribution in Sikkim Himalayas, presented at National Climate Research Conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
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Snowball Earth has melted back to a profound wintry mix
In 1998, a handful of geoscientists breathed new life into a daring idea: that Earth froze over from pole to pole more than a half-billion years ago, threatening life with extinction but perhaps prodding it to greater evolutionary heights. Geoscientists report evidence that the tropics also hosted glaciers more than 100 million years before that supposed global freeze.
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Assessing changes snow and glacier melt runoff
Assessing changes snow and glacier melt runoff by Anil V Kulkarni presented at the National Climate Research Conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
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New estimate of Alaska's glacier melt
Overestimated: Previous studies have largely overestimated mass loss from Alaskan glaciers over the past 40-plus years.
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Glacial lakes and associated floods in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas
It is now generally accepted that climate warming is having a significant impact on the Himalayas. One of its effects is that glaciers are thinning and retreating throughout much of the region. This is accompanied by formation of melt-water lakes, both on the glacier surface and in front of them.