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Pakistan urges India to respect Indus Water TreatyPakistan has called on India to uphold the Indus Waters Treaty. Minister Musadik Malik stated that suspending the treaty would create a dan...26 May, 2026, 11.24 PM IST- Heat waves to last longer and affect more areas in India, warn scientistsScientists warn that India's heat waves will intensify, lasting longer and affecting larger areas due to climate change. Models suggest pro...29 May, 2025, 05.18 PM IST
- Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk raises concern over Himalayan glaciersThe letter follows Wangchuk's return from his 12-day tour to the US, during which he also carried a 7 kg block of ice from the fast melting...26 Feb, 2025, 09.17 AM IST
- India should take lead in preserving glaciers: Sonam Wangchuk writes open letter to PMClimate activist Sonam Wangchuk, after his US tour, urges Prime Minister Modi to lead initiatives for preserving Himalayan glaciers. Wangch...25 Feb, 2025, 03.19 PM IST
- How glaciers can burst and send floods downstreamProglacial lakes, formed after glaciers retreat, are often bound by sediment and boulder formations. Additional water or pressure, or struc...08 Feb, 2021, 01.01 PM IST
- Uttarakhand flood: 2019 study warned Himalayan glaciers melting at alarming speedThe glacier collapse at Joshimath on Sunday led to a massive flood in the Dhauli Ganga river and caused large-scale devastation in the uppe...07 Feb, 2021, 06.51 PM IST
- Himalayan glaciers melting twice as fast, 2019 study foundThe study, published in the journal Science Advances in June 2019, shows that glaciers have been losing the equivalent of more than a verti...07 Feb, 2021, 02.55 PM IST
- Karakoram glaciers growing in spite of climate change: StudyIn winter, the vortex affects the temperature over the whole 2,000 kilometre mountain range, but in the summer the vortex contracts and has...08 Aug, 2017, 04.52 PM IST
- Recession of Himalayan glaciers alarming: ISRO scientistsBengaluru, July 12 (IANS) Analysis of satellite images have revealed an "alarming recession" of glaciers in the Bhilangna basin of the Garh...12 Jul, 2017, 01.37 PM IST
- World glaciers melting at record rates: StudyA worldwide study has revealed that during 2001 to 2010, glaciers lost ice at an alarming two to three times the average for the 20th centu...03 Aug, 2015, 06.03 PM IST
- Melting glaciers giving rise to new lakes in Himachal PradeshMelting of glaciers is resulting in the formation of smaller lakes in the high hills of Himachal Pradesh and is posing threat to the popula...23 Jul, 2014, 03.01 AM IST
- Carelessness happens at times: TERI fellowIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has goofed up so badly on its Himalayan glacier melting forecast that it's close to losing...27 Jan, 2010, 02.15 AM IST
- Recession of Himalayan glaciers part of natural process: GovtEnvironment minister Jairam Ramesh said the recession of Himalayan glaciers was part of the natural cyclical process which could be attribu...09 Dec, 2009, 07.35 PM IST
- Smaller glaciers more vulnerable to climate change: StudySmaller Himalayan glaciers are proving much more vulnerable to climate change than the area's larger glaciers, says a new report contradict...24 Nov, 2009, 05.27 PM IST
- Centre planned to study melting of Himalayan glaciersA glaciology centre, the first of its kind in the country, will be set up in one of the Himalayan states to study melting of glaciers, amid...29 Oct, 2009, 07.28 PM IST
- Tibetan glaciers are melting fasterIf reports are to be believed, the Tibetan glaciers are melting faster than anyone thought, putting nearly a billion people living in South...25 Nov, 2008, 12.15 PM IST
- India, China to check melting of glaciers, says PMIndia 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
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