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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Error on glacier damaged IPCC credibility
Hasan Suroor LONDON: Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), on Wednesday admitted that its credibility was damaged by the controversy over its 2007 report, which falsely claimed that the Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035.
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Many glaciers, ice caps worldwide in retreat
Core evidence: Ice cores collected in 2006 from the 6050 metre high Naimona
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IPCC studies robust, says Pachauri
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman R K Pachauri has dismissed as
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Statement by Delhi Paltform on the Himalayan Glaciers controversy
The latest statement by Delhi Platform on Himalayan glacial melt controversy. Says that critics have missed key issues and have ignored impacts & perceptions of people who live in the vicinity of glaciers.
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Pachauri defiant, says charges against IPCC unfounded
New Delhi: For Rajendra Pachauri, the ordeal is never-ending. Repeatedly being dragged in the eye of the storm for the
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Antarctic ardour
Associate Laureate Laureate Cristian Donoso kayaked along Antarctica's rugged coast, documenting the fate of wildlife endangered by global climate change. Now he has returned there with two companions to kayak to a remote section of the Antarctic Peninsula, then turn the kayaks into sleds and scale the Antarctic Andes, exploring the effect of climate change on high glaciers.
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Reaching tipping point?: climate change and poverty in Tajikistan
The people of Tajikistan, a small, mountainous country in Central Asia, are experiencing the impacts of climate change. More frequent droughts and heightened extreme weather
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Date wrong, science credible
Sunita Narain, director, Centre of Science and Environment, says that her past battles with IPCC chief R.K. Pachauri do not detract from the truth of climate change and that climate skeptics should not take advantage of the `date mistake' in the IPCC report on Himalayan glaciers. Excerpts from an interview: What is your reaction to the whole glacier controversy?
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Science and fiction
The admission by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that it grossly overstated the rate at which Himalayan glaciers were receding has hurt the credibility of the institution considerably. It is all very well for the IPCC to defend itself by saying that this was just one page in a report of over 3,000 pages.
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One expert blames another on glaciers
RASHME SEHGAL