The National Green Tribunal has sought responses from the Centre and other bodies concerning the danger posed by hanging glaciers in the ce...

A road journey through Uttarakhand’s mountain towns reveals a deeper shift in both climate and pilgrimage. Unusual heat, felt by locals as ...

Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate. Ice loss has nearly doubled since 2000. This region holds vital ice reserves for Asia. ...

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"According to information received from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), in-situ measurements show the black carbon concentra...

Ice on a glacier near the summit of Mount Everest that took millennia to form has shrunk dramatically in the last three decades due to clim...

Many readers will be astonished that the contribution of glacial melt can be just under 1% even in the higher Himalayas. The estimates of s...

In high mountainous terrains, melting of glaciers due to global warming leading to higher warming rates over higher elevation than lower el...

The study, published in the journal Science Advances in June 2019, shows that glaciers have been losing the equivalent of more than a verti...

New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) Sonam Wangchuk, labelled as 'The Real Phunsuk Wangdu of Ladakh', announced here on Thursday his ambitious project ...

The National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem (NMSHE) is one of the eight National missions which form the core of India’s fi...

A report by NASA scientists suggests that the Antarctic ice sheet may actually be expanding, growing every year, despite a warming globe!

Reductions of these so-called short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) would slow rapid melting in mountain regions with glaciers, like the H...

Having done a commendable job in minimising casualties due to Phailin, the government is also taking lessons from the Uttarakhand disaster.

Apart from the Himalayan Black Bear, other animals are too given special care at the Chhatbir Zoo during the monsoon season.

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh said the recession of Himalayan glaciers was part of the natural cyclical process which could be attribu...

Paris-based Nestle Waters has emerged as the last-minute surprise suitor for Himalayan water even as the Tatas have inched close to acquiri...