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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Detection of glacier lakes buried under snow by RISAT-1 SAR in the Himalayan terrain
<p>Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) signals penetrate through the dry snow and cloud providing crucial data over the Himalayan temperate glaciers and complement the optical images. In the present study,
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Observed latitudinal variations in erosion as a function of glacier dynamics
Glacial erosion is fundamental to our understanding of the role of Cenozoic-era climate change in the development of topography worldwide, yet the factors that control the rate of erosion by ice remain
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Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier sheds big ice chunk
These "before" and "after" images were acquired by the US space agency's Landsat observer Scientists are studying a big mass of ice that has broken off the Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland. They say the
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Climate Change Triggering 'Historically Unprecedented' Glacial Ice Melt
The first decade of the twenty-first century has not been a good one for the planet's climate. Of the 15 warmest years on record, 14 have occurred since 2000. Rising global temperatures have also made
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Climate Change: Glaciers are Melting Faster Than Ever Before
It turns out that glaciers are melting faster than ever. Scientists have compiled worldwide data on glacier changes for more than 120 years and have found that in the first decade of the 21st century,
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Historically unprecedented global glacier decline in the early 21st century
<p>Observations show that glaciers around the world are in retreat and losing mass. Internationally coordinated for over a century, glacier monitoring activities provide an unprecedented dataset of glacier
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Modernizing weather, water, and climate services: a road map for Bhutan
The main objective of this technical assistance paper is to provide recommendations to the Royal Government of Bhutan for modernizing its hydrometeorological services, including capacity strengthening
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution at Rohtang Pass, Himachal Pradesh, 06/07/2015
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Court on its own Motion Vs. State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors. dated 06/07/2015 regarding pollution at Rohtang Pass.</p> <p>The Tribunal has
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Persistence and dispersal in a Southern Hemisphere glaciated landscape: the phylogeography of the spotted snow skink (Niveoscincus ocellatus) in Tasmania
The aim of this research was to identify the effects of Pleistocene climate change on the distribution of fauna in Tasmania, and contrast this with biotic responses in other temperate regions in the Northern
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Rohtang: Restrictions to continue as NGT refuses to budge
Restrictions on access to Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh will continue as the National Green Tribunal (NGT) today refused to stay the operation of its earlier direction limiting the entry of diesel and