Greenhouse gas emissions are projected to significantly worsen extreme floods in the Central Himalayas, potentially increasing their magnit...

Flash floods in Kheer Ganga revive memories of past disasters for survivors. Uttarakhand faces increasing extreme rainfall and landslides. ...

In a statement, Glacier National Park officials said, "After weeks of searching, rangers at Glacier National Park believe they have recover...

A youth from Pune, Siddhant Vittal Patil, drowned in Glacier National Park, Montana, and has been missing since July 6. Patil, a tech profe...

The report, 'Glacier Management in the Country - Monitoring of Glaciers / Lakes Including Glacial Lake Outbursts leading to Flash-Floods in...

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

The researchers noted that limiting temperature rise to two degrees Celsius rather than four degrees Celsius would halve the area at risk, ...

The glacier collapse at Joshimath on Sunday led to a massive flood in the Dhauli Ganga river and caused large-scale devastation in the uppe...

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

Rising sea levels driven by climate change could upend the lives of more than 13 million Americans by the end of the century, according to ...

The information will be a critical complement to future long-term projections of sea level rise, which depend on melting ice and warming oc...

Firn is multi-year compacted snow that is not as dense as glacier ice. Instead, it forms a porous near-surface layer over the ice sheet.

Glaciers in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, home to several Himalayan rivers, have been shrunk by 15 per cent in the past three decades and the ...

The glaciers feed 9 river basins, including the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra, which support millions of people across Afghanistan, Pak, In...

Chewang Norphel hates making small talk. But he likes building glaciers. Busy recording the process for posterity, the 74-year-old from Lad...

The amount of groundwater pumped out by Delhiites and others across northern India is highest in the world and is contributing as much as 5...