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The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has expressed a significant worry regarding the Himalayan rivers, particularly the Indus, the Ganges, and the Brahmaputra, which are essential for India. He cautioned that the flow of these water bodies could decrease in the coming years due to the retreat of glaciers and ice sheets caused by global warming. … Read more
The Himalayan glaciers, which act as vital water reservoirs for nearly two billion people in South Asia, have undergone significant changes in recent decades, posing a threat to the water supply and safety of the entire Indian subcontinent. The melting of glaciers in the Kashmir Himalayas, in particular, is occurring at an alarming pace. The … Read more
India is home to a number of magnificent glaciers, each with its own unique features and importance. According to a recent study, glaciers in the Himalayas have been melting at a rate of 8.1 percent per decade, which could have severe consequences for the region’s water supply. The study, which was conducted by the Indian … Read more
The extent of Antarctic sea ice has registered a new historical minimum after it was reduced to 1.91 million square kilometres on February 13, according to data from the National Ice Data Center and Snow Protection Agency (NSIDC). On that date, the levels fell below the previous record of 1.92 million square kilometres, set on … Read more
Some fifteen million people worldwide could be threatened by sudden overflows of glacial lakes, and the most exposed are the populations of the high mountains of Asia (India, Pakistan and China) and the Andes (Peru and Bolivia). Flooding by glacial lakes More than half of those fifteen million people exposed to this potential risk are … Read more
In the remainder of the century and if urgent measures are not taken to stop global warming, a minimum of 60% of the glaciers of the entire globe could disappear before 2100. This 60% loss is estimated in the best of cases, with an increase of 1.5ºC in temperature, less than the 2.7ºC average global … Read more
Climate change is causing much more pronounced melting than previously thought in the glaciers of the Arctic island of Greenland. New data from a group of researchers from the Oden Institute of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas (United States) have revealed that large blocks of ice are actually melting 100 times faster than had … Read more
As much as we reduce carbon dioxide emissions today, it is already too late: half of the glaciers in the Alps are doomed to disappear by 2050. Half a century later, 90% will have melted, if not due to climate change we take action to reduce global warming. This is clear from the first large study … Read more
New research, published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, used surface meltwater samples from four glaciers in the European Alps, as well as from Canada, Sweden, Svalbard and the western Greenland ice sheet, to study the microbes present in these ecosystems. The new research, published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, … Read more
As global temperatures continue to rise and glaciers melt faster, new research suggests the risk of flooding in the Himalayas of Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir and the Tibetan Plateau could triple. Jammu and Kashmir are bracing for the risk of flash flooding after a spring heat wave accelerated the melting of glaciers in the Himalayas. Glacial lakes … Read more
