Komal’s morning view was of jagged, forbidding mountains, the rush of the river dozens of metres below the family home on the ...

At a glance the river looks like a casualty of mining ... in the high Andes, where the glaciers are actively melting. Indigenous villages at these elevations are the most vulnerable, and, being ...

As the ice caps disappear, these creeks and rivers become more irregular, leading to longer and more intense droughts in the ...

A study conducted by scientists at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, reveals that glaciers in Uttarakhand ...

In 'DOWNSTREAM,' Protect Our Winters (POW) dives deep, taking a scientific look at receding glaciers and what that means for ...

DIONISIA Moreno, a 70-year-old Indigenous farmer, still remembers when the Shallap River, nearly 13,000 feet up in the ...

Trained in first aid, river crossing and high mountain rescue ... systems to monitor glacier melt, rainfall and water levels, speakers installed in villages to warn the community if danger ...

Glaciers have historically determined the boundary between Italy and Switzerland in the Alps. Now, their melting has led the two countries to redraw a small section of their border over the past ...

More information: Harry Zekollari et al, Twenty-first century global glacier evolution under CMIP6 scenarios and the role of glacier-specific observations, The Cryosphere (2024). DOI: 10.5194/tc ...

He said Glacier 2025 initiative provides a unique opportunity to address the issue of melting glaciers. Terming glaciers as lifeline for survival ... he said that Pakistan is home of over seven ...