LOOMING THREAT

Battle fatigue

The environmental implications of the border-war in Siachen

Sea change

Photographs confirm Patagonian glaciers are melting into oblivion

Waterworks India: Chewang Norphell

A brief clip from the movie Waterworks India profiling Chewang Norphell, a civil engineer who has found a unique way to combat the water …

Peak pressure

Scorching reality

The world might never witness an ice age again, thanks to global warming

Gold diggers

Mining company plans to move three glaciers in Chile

Skeleton Lake

What happens when ice melts in the Roopkund tarn?

Himalayan water-sharing system endangered

Modern practices are threatening to break up an unusual water-tapping and water-sharing process in Himachal Pradesh. Devised hundreds of years ago,…

Getting to the core

Drilling of ice cores in the Himalayan glaciers reveal that global warming is altering climate patterns

Ice does not lie

Says the eminent Alaskan scientist Maynard Miller. manu n kulkarni visits this land of the midnight sun to know what causes its glaciers to …

'Farmers in Ladakh are among biggest victims of climate change'

After inventing the first artificial glacier in 1987, Chewang Norphel came to be known as “Ice Man of India”. He talks about how …

Simply Put: Shrinking GDP

CHINA

Bacteria in glaciers

Right picture

Climate change likely to trigger frequent and severe volcanic eruptions: Studies

Rainfall can destabilise the lava domes of a volcano leading to eruptions; it can also infiltrate the subsurface, causing magma to rise  

Glaciers melted faster in the first decade of 21st century: study

According to the researchers, rising temperatures may affect the dynamics of ice sheets in future

Silenced Springs

Glaciers retreat. Forests become denuded. Buildings come up where green meadows used to be. And across the Kashmir valley, the natural mountain …

Whose mandate? UNSC not appropriate forum say India, Russia and Brazil as Council debates sea-level rise

Over 70 leaders call for considering climate change impacts on security before conflicts break out or worsen

United Nations

Tapping technology

Hot spots

Global warming will lead to water scarcity in Asia

Great Siberian thaw

Methane, carbon dioxide will be released on a huge scale

Dry winter: Water levels in dams on Himachal rivers decline to half of their capacity; experts warn of thirsty summer

Snow & rain during December and January was supposed to replenish state’s glaciers