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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The scope of science for the International Polar Year 20072008
The International Polar Year (IPY) 2007
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On the brink? a report on climate change and its impact in Kashmir
On the Brink? A Report on Climate Change and Its Impact in Kashmir documents the disappearance of many small glaciers from the region's mountains, the western Himalayas. The report warns that receding Himalayan glaciers could jeopardize water supplies for hundreds of millions of people. Other climate-related changes include rising sea levels that could threaten Indian cities such as Mumbai and Kolkata, more floods and droughts, more disease, and lower crop yields.
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Ice on a slide
Glaciers recede, implicate global warming
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Climate change a market failure
Time was when climate change was a debate among scientists. Now, economists are looking at its costs. There is a warning or two for India. It has to do with the monsoon and the glaciers that feed Himalayan rivers. While the monsoon's behaviour is ch
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Simple message
Know the problem. Deal with it
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Why we should worry
From atop the 13,600-ft high windswept crest of a steep, serrated ridge, the Samudra Tapu glacier is a giant blanket of ice and snow, covering the bowl-shaped valley between jagged Himalayan peaks in the
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Documentary films on climate change
Climate Change, an Untold Story
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Tropical high altitude glaciers are melting fast
Glacial melting assumes huge proportions
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How to kill a glacier
Every year in from April to July, over one lakh visitors trek 20 km along the Ganga to reach at 14,000 feet above sea level, the Gomukh glacier, the source of one of India's mightiest rivers. Against the
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Pakistan bars scientists meet on Siachen park
Pakistan has put on hold a meet to bring together scientists from India, Pakistan and China to discuss setting up a science park at Siachen glacier since the Karakoram range in the Himalaya has been