How global warming is affecting China's glaciers and freshwater supplyChina's glaciers have reduced by 26% since 1960 due to global warming. Over 7,000 small glaciers have disappeared. The retreat poses risks ...
26 Mar, 2025, 11.17 AM IST
Save the world's glaciers to save the planet: UNSaving the world's shrinking glaciers is a "survival strategy" for the planet, the UN said on Tuesday, a day after President Donald Trump a...
22 Jan, 2025, 07.34 PM IST
Chinese Co "destroys" glaciers in Kyrgyzstan: MP demands government interventionKyrgyz MP Zhanarbek Akayev has accused a Chinese coal mining company of damaging glaciers in the Alay region. He has written to the prosecu...
11 Oct, 2024, 10.27 AM IST
Glacial ties should not mean non-coopIndia must step up its research on glaciers and augment its understanding of the issue. As major countries of the region, both India and Ch...
25 Dec, 2023, 11.01 PM IST
Centre rejects Parliamentary panel idea to share glacier data with China, neighboursThe report, 'Glacier Management in the Country - Monitoring of Glaciers / Lakes Including Glacial Lake Outbursts leading to Flash-Floods in...
19 Dec, 2023, 01.19 AM IST
Snowfall may be key to why some Himalayan glaciers aren’t meltingGlobal warming is shrinking glaciers across the world, whether in the Alps or the Himalayas. Except in one spot: the Karokaram mountain ran...
21 Feb, 2020, 04.30 AM IST
Siachen: All you should know about the world’s costliest battlefieldLife is tough at the Siachen glacier, spread over a 76 km area, due to sub-zero temperatures that dip below -60 degrees, constant threat of...
20 Nov, 2019, 04.21 PM IST
Glacier collapses in China's Xinjiang,causes extensive damageA huge glacier has collapsed in China, burying over 100 cattles, crushing dozens of houses and damaging 1,000 hectares of grassland.
16 May, 2015, 11.08 PM IST
Glaciers in Tibet retreating at alarming rateChina's glaciers particularly those in Tibet have retreated by about 7,600sqkm - nearly 18 per cent - in the last 65 years and even the thi...
23 Apr, 2015, 02.38 PM IST
Glaciers in Tibetan Plateau shrinking rapidly: ReportGlaciers in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, home to several Himalayan rivers, have been shrunk by 15 per cent in the past three decades and the ...
21 May, 2014, 05.03 PM IST
Tibet glaciers melting due to South Asian pollution: ChinaAbout 90 per cent of glaciers in Tibet are shrinking because of black carbon pollution "transferred from South Asia" to the ecologically fr...
25 Mar, 2013, 03.07 PM IST
- Tibet glaciers melting due to South Asian pollution: China
About 90% of glaciers in Tibet called the Third Pole region, are shrinking because of black carbon pollution "transferred from South Asia" ...
25 Mar, 2013, 02.21 PM IST
- Warming of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau bad news for India
With the glaciers on the Qinghai- Tibet Plateau receding at an alarming rate, North India could face the prospect of drought and water leve...
18 Aug, 2009, 06.53 PM IST
- Army to go ahead with next edition of civilian Siachen trek
Brushing aside objections raised by Pakistan, the Army has decided to press ahead with second edition of the civilian mountaineering and tr...
18 Jun, 2008, 03.28 AM IST
- Despite Pak protest, Army plans civilian trek to Siachen
Notwithstanding Pakistan's vociferous protests, Indian Army will organise a civilian mountaineering and trekking expedition to the forbiddi...
17 Jun, 2008, 02.28 PM IST
'Himalayan tragedy awaits India, China'Lester Brown, a leading environmental scientist, has warned that shrinking Himalayan glaciers could eventually lead to "politically unmanag...
21 Mar, 2008, 03.20 AM IST
- India, China to check melting of glaciers, says PM
India has taken up the issue of climate change and melting of glaciers with China, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday by Prime Minist...
31 Aug, 2007, 12.39 AM IST