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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Pakistan exposed to impact of glacial melting
The melting of the glaciers will have an adverse impact on the entire South Asian region, said Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who came to a side event organised by Pakistan
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Alarm bells over Valleys largest glacier
RIYAZ WANI While Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh believes glacier melting has little to do with climate change, expert Dr Shakeel Ramshoo has rung the alarm bells, saying the Valley
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All That Is Not Green
COPENHAGEN WAS going to be the big opportunity to sign on to a better environmental world order. Instead, the road to it has been marked with zero-visibility smog impairing collective human vision.
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A long game
Unlike America's leaders, China's bosses are not much troubled by recalcitrant legislatures. The government has therefore had no difficulty in executing a smart volte face on climate change. Around three years ago its fierce resistance to the notion of any limit on its greenhouse-gas emissions started to soften. It now seems to be making serious efforts to control them.
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To save the Himalayan glaciers, YouTube queen sings in Paradise
As the world braced for bruising negotiations and prayed for a deal at Copenhagen, an icon of the Internet age sang for the glaciers of Kashmir.
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Isro images show Gangotri glacier receded 1.5km in 30 yrs
Retreat Faster Than Observed Earlier Jayashree Nandi | TNN Bangalore: As big global players play the game of negotiations, and as the opposition wakes up to the implications of India
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Nepal Cabinet to meet near Everest today
BINAJ GURUBACHARYA The high-altitude meeting comes on the heels of the recent underwater Cabinet meeting held in Maldives, also meant to draw attention to global warming : A group of Nepalese ministers reached the Mount Everest region on Thursday for a Cabinet meeting being billed as the highest ever -a stunt meant to highlight the threat global warming poses to Himalayan glaciers.
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Kanchenzonga glacier recedes
The glacier of the world famous Mount Kanchenzonga in Sikkim has receded 4.5 metres in the last 17 years (1986-2005), Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh confirmed on Monday.
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The impacts of climate change on the Tibetan Plateau: A synthesis of recent science and Tibetan research
This comprehensive report surveys the full range of scientific findings on all aspects of climate change on the Tibetan Plateau. Summarises over 150 recent research reports published in scientific journals, by Chinese and international scientists.
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Satellite-era glacier changes in High Asia
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