Earth's glaciers have lost over 8,200 gigatonnes of ice since 1976, leading to rising sea levels and water scarcity concerns.
Unesco report says Hindu Kush, Himalaya could lose 50pc of glaciers by year 2100; calls for novel solutions to avert disaster.
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.
A team of researchers is making final preparations for a trip to Mount Everest in Nepal next month to explore why the ice of ...
Researchers from IISER Pune, University of Kashmir, and IIT Bombay and Roorkee, among others, studied 5,807 rock glaciers in ...
A new study brings attention to a different type of glacier - Rock glaciers, which are landforms composed of rocks and ice, ...
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has responded to a series of alarming reports from United Nations agencies, confirming that many glaciers in the Hindu Kush ...
Between 2000 and 2023, Earth's 215,000 glaciers have been losing ice at an alarming rate-273 gigatonnes annually. That's ...
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 ...
A team of Sherpas has fixed ropes as far as Camp 2 on Annapurna. On Saturday, they begin work on the treacherous section ...