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
Mountains
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Kilimanjaro may be ice-free by ’60
London: The peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro — world’s highest free-standing mountain — may be ice-free as soon as 2060, scientists have warned. Researchers with Nasa’s Earth Observatory, have found that
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A flash-flooding storm at the steep edge of high terrain: Disaster in the Himalayas
Flash floods on the edge of high terrain, such as the Himalayas or Rocky Mountains, are especially dangerous and hard to predict. The Leh flood of 2010 at the edge of the Himalayan Plateau in India is
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Climate change, tourism threatening mountains
A combination of climate change and booming tourism could cause famous mountain spots in Southwest China's Yunnan province to lose their snow, authorities and experts have warned. Rising temperatures
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Gender and biodiversity management in the Greater Himalayas: towards equitable mountain development
This study aims to enhance understanding of the dynamic relationship among biodiversity conservation and management, gender, and livelihoods in the greater Himalayan region. Based on a review of literature
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Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change
Using information on current species distributions and dispersal traits, this study forecasts climate-driven range dynamics of plant species across the European Alps. Simulations predict moderate range
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Extrapolating glacier mass balance to the mountain-range scale: the European Alps 1900–2100
This study addresses the extrapolation of in-situ glacier mass balance measurements to the mountain-range scale and aims at deriving time series of area-averaged mass balance and ice volume change for
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Uttarakhand Janmanch to launch Parvat Garjana Andolan on July 8
The Uttarakhand Janmanch will launch the Parvat Garjana Andolan from Srinagar on July 8 to protest against the Central Govern-ment’s decision to stop work on the Srinagar, Peepalkoti, Loharinag Pala hydro-power
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The Death Of A Waterfall
A rugged, tree-covered mountain range sweeps vertically into a brilliant blue sky. Out of a cave on its western side gushes a natural spring, its lacy, white water tripping 244 metres over a sheer black-and-red
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Environmental extremes disaster risk management: addressing climate change
This publication addresses climate change and disaster management issues in South Asia, and more particularly in India. It builds on the theme chosen by the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM)
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Mainstreaming mountain concerns in the climate change and development
As a part of the Mountain Initiative, Nepal's Ministry of Environment organized a two-day `International Conference of Mountain Countries on Climate Change' in Kathmandu from 5-6 April 2012. The main