India is grappling with an acute water crisis. Recent studies reveal that the Western Himalayas are experiencing the driest spring seasons ...

Vast underground freshwater reserves in the Himalayas and Andes are depleting. Satellites now track these hidden water losses, revealing si...

Nagaland University is leading a research project. It focuses on high-altitude lakes in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh. The project assesses ...

A recent flash flood in Sikkim's Teesta river basin has highlighted the risks associated with South Lhonak lake. A study published in 2021 ...

The Hindu Kush Himalaya region spans across Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan, encompassing iconi...

Several key roads are currently blocked due to landslides triggered by heavy rain in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and t...

It is generated by human activity both inside and outside South Asia. It is part of a larger basket of aerosols that impact climate change ...

The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, was carried over the Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh region, including areas across the ...

Himachal Pradesh has 5 major river basins Satluj, Ravi, Beas, Chenab and Yamuna. Yamuna crosses only the south-eastern border of the state,...

The impact of climate change is being felt in Kashmir as snowfall has lowered over the years and glaciers are losing mass leading to reduce...

Climate change, increase in agricultural land use and population growth may lead to severe water shortage in Nepal in the coming decades, a...

Glaciers in the Everest region of the Himalayas could shrink at least 70 per cent or even disappear entirely by the end of the century if g...

ver 70 per cent of glacier volume in the Everest region could be lost by 2100 if current trends of greenhouse gases emission continue, a ne...

The conference on climate change has a participation of more than 200 scientists, policy makers & parliamentarians from countries including...

Glacier and snowmelt contribute water to ten important river basins originating from the Himalayas and in the Tibetan plateau serving over ...

Despite the retreating of glaciers in Himalayas, water supply in rivers like Ganga, Brahmaputra and Indus will increase in the coming decad...

A scientist specialising in geology who studies mountains among other structures constituting the Earth with the tools of physics, chemistr...