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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Joining hands to save glaciers
Madhur Tankha NEW DELHI: The Energy and Resources Institute and the Indian Mountaineering Foundation on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding to study, preserve and safeguard the Himalayan glaciers under the National Mission of Sustaining the Himalayan Eco-system.
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Arctic pollution 2009
This report is the sixth `State of the Arctic environment report' that has been prepared by AMAP in accordance with its mandate. It presents the results of work conducted during AMAP's third phase (2002-2008) in relation to three priority areas persistent organic pollutants, human health, and radioactivity.
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Climate in peril: a popular guide to the latest IPCC reports
This guide, while it aims to present the substance and the sense of the IPCC
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Tapping glaciers
China will start backing up its shrinking glaciers with 59 meltwater reservoirs this year as the cost of climate change hits home in the world's most populous nation.
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Melting glaciers
Climate change threatens mankind
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Global warming and water crisis (Editorial)
Curse of melting glaciers, shrinking rivers and growing deforestation
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Valley headed for major water crisis as glaciers receding speedily
Shabir Ibn Yusuf, SRINAGAR: Valley may face severe water crisis in coming summer, as the glaciers have receded at an alarming rate, if the officials of Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF) and experts are to be believed. The cause is stated to be a lower snowfall, above normal temperature and early melting of snow in the mountains, besides deforestation and human interference.
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Climate change and its impact on the Himalayan glaciers a case study on the Chorabari glacier
Glaciers and small ice caps in temperate environments are sensitive indicators of the change in climate. Mountain glaciers provide a valuable tool for reconstruction of Holocene climate changes. The present work, thus, deals mainly with climatic change and its impact on the Himalayan glaciers based on the dating of lichens, developed on loops of moraines formed due
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Draft report of the glaciers study group
This document is the draft report of the glaciers study group, prepared by Ministry of Science and Technology, submitted to the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change.