Glacial lake keeps disaster managers on toes in Sikkim

Floods caused due to outbursts of glacial lakes are a matter of concern in Sikkim Himalayan region

These are India’s climate hotspots

India is home to 72% of the 750 million people exposed to climate change hazards in South Asia

Against the flow

Greenland is melting: We need to worry about what’s happening on the world’s largest island

The three largest glaciers were responsible for 8.1 millimetre of sea level rise, about 15% of the whole ice sheet’s contribution

‘Rising mercury is making Nepal glaciers vulnerable’

Changing nature of glaciers and glacial lakes make the Himalayas one of the most climate vulnerable regions on the planet. Rijan Bhakta Kayastha, …

Bavarian glaciers shrinking ‘rapidly’, says study

Four out of five glaciers could disappear entirely within the next twenty years, it warns

Glacier change in the Everest region

An international team of researchers has studied glaciers in the Dudh Koshi basin of the Everest region in Nepal

Experts map glacier movement in Karakoram range

GIFs are being used to simplify the study of changes in glaciers over long periods

19,742 years off the mark

Black carbon is a threat to Himalayan glaciers

Banning fossil fuels or the introduction of glacier tax can be a deterrent in these high-altitude areas

Melting glaciers: We need to keep an eye out on these states, Union Territories

There are 25 glacial lakes and water bodies in India, China, and Nepal that have seen a 40% increase in water spread area since 2009. They pose a …

Chamoli disaster: Why proposed glaciology centre in Uttarakhand was shelved

A glaciology centre was approved for construction in the Himalayan region in 2009; in 2020, it was merged with another institute there 

Andean Glacier and Water Atlas warns of ‘significant reduction in glacier mass’

UNESCO project highlights impact of shrinking glaciers on water availability and threat to water security for millions of people

Research on thin ice

Lack of coherent research on the melting Gangotri glacier spells disaster

Tropical high-altitude glaciers are melting fast

Glacial melting assumes huge proportions

Disaster intimation

The melting Arctic is a crime scene. The microbes I study have long warned us of this catastrophe – but they are also driving it

Arctic lands are a patchwork of permafrost carbon feedbacks, and our future depends on the uncertain fate of the microbes within

To predict future sea level rise, we need accurate maps of the world’s most remote fjords

Estimating how much mass will be lost is often highlighted as glaciology’s grand challenge as it constitutes a large uncertainty …

Water shortage in the home of glaciers

Residents in the UP Himalaya, abundant in rivers and glaciers and covered by a piped water network, are experiencing a water shortage caused by a …

Melting into thin air

The 25-km long Gangotri glacier, fountainhead of the Ganga, is receding at an average 18 metres annually

Glaciers in the tropics are threatened

Slow drowning of Tibetan grasslands fenced in by Beijing

Drastic changes are being set-off in the sensitive Tibetan region, but climate change is not the only culprit 

Upper oceans hottest in 2020 despite lower emissions due to COVID-19 lockdowns

Heat content was 20 zetta joules higher than in 2019

Glaciers beating retreat

Himalayan glaciers, source of water for the innumerable rivers that flow across the Indo-Gangetic plains, are receding. And that too at a …

Glaciers in western Canada to lose 70 per cent volume by 2100: study

Runoff from the melting ice will peak between 2020 and 2040