HKS Snow Update 2025
<p>The HKH Snow Update 2025 highlights a significant decline in seasonal snow across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, with snow persistence 23.6% below normal — the lowest in 23 years. This trend,
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Global-scale hydrological response to future glacier mass loss
Worldwide glacier retreat and associated future runoff changes raise major concerns over the sustainability of global water resources, but global-scale assessments of glacier decline and the resulting
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding discharge of effluent from Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL), Lepetkata, Dibrugarh, Assam into the Brahmaputra, 02/11/2017
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Saikhowa Sadiya Min Samabai Samiti Ltd. & Dibrugarh Fishery Co-operative Society Ltd. Vs Union of India &
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Flood risk assessment and forecasting for the Ganges- Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basins
This flood risk assessment and forecasting for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basins summarizes the technical findings, includes highlights of the work, and links to the full technical reports and
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Asia's glaciers to shrink by a third by 2100, threatening water supply of millions
Asia’s mountain glaciers will lose at least a third of their mass through global warming by the century’s end, with dire consequences for millions of people who rely on them for fresh water, researchers
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Mining in Tibet poses threat to black-necked cranes
Mineral exploitation, infrastructure development and changes in agricultural practices are severely threatening the survival of the black-necked crane that is endemic to the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas,
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Assam flood situation grim; Seven more die, toll rises to 32
Officials sources in Guwahati said the total number of people affected rose to 12.55 lakh on Monday. The floods have caused damage to roads, bridges and other infrastructure in several districts, while
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Flood situation turns critical
With one more life lost, the flood situation in Assam continued to be critical on Sunday even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and took stock of the prevailing
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Guwahati facing flood threat as Brahmaputra flows above danger mark
The Guwhati city is facing the risk of getting inundated as the river Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger mark on Thursday. Official sources said if rain does not stop anytime soon, Guwahati will
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Fresh flood submerges 50 villages
Fresh flood submerged over 50 villages affecting 70,000 people over 75 hectares of agricultural land and adjacent to the river side and a CRPF camp had to be shifted to Goromur Bongkhi Gopal Natya Mandir,
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Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20th and 21st century
<p>Water scarcity is rapidly increasing in many regions. In a novel, multi-model assessment, we examine how human interventions (HI: land use and land cover change, man-made reservoirs and human water