Buddhist monks, scientists, government officials and community figures will take part in a ceremony on Monday at the Yala glacier, one of the most studied and measured ice bodies in the Hindu Kush ...

High in the Himalaya, a desert is turning green ... Wangchuk built a 64-foot-tall “ice stupa”—an artificial glacier made by piping mountain streams into a Ladakhi village.

One chilly morning this past December, nine women awoke to the sight of a glacier looming before them, glowing orange in the ...

The Hindu Kush-Himalayan range, which stretches from Afghanistan to Myanmar, holds the largest reserves of ice and snow outside ... snow across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, with snow ...

The Ocean Policy Research Institute of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (OPRI-SPF) and the International Centre for Integrated ...

This year on World Water Day on March 22, the UN is highlighting "Glacier Preservation". Why? Because these frozen reservoirs that supply freshwater to nearly two billion people are disappearing ...

On the north side of the Himalaya sits the partially reconstructed ... snow" (by Odell), with "an imposing head of granite and ice," (Noel) and it looms large over the Rongbuk glacier, shining ...

The Inner Himalaya is distinguished by its snow and ice clad peaks. These peaks border plateaus, and in turn form the southern edge of Tibet. Tibet, a vast area of plains, mountains and gorges ...