glaciers

Nepal’s mountains are melting

The development of glacial lakes from receding glaciers, contained by either terminal moraines or bedrock, is commonly linked with global warming since the end...

Dalai Lama gets block of glacial ice

In a symbolic commemoration of Earth Day on 22 April, Indian environmentalists from Ladakh brought down a block of glacial ice and...

Nepal’s first hydropower from a glacial lake

Turning global warming into opportunity, melting Himalayan glacier is harnessed for electricity

Kunda Dixit

DANGER: Nepal’s glacial lakes are filling up

Among all the other disasters we have to be prepared for are glacial lake outburst floods

Covid-climate crises hit Everest region

There is an ancestral attachment to the mountains for Dawa Steven Sherpa. His grandfather regularly crossed Nangpa La to trade with Tibet,...

Covid-climate crises hit Everest region

There is an ancestral attachment to the mountains for Dawa Steven Sherpa. His grandfather regularly crossed Nangpa La to trade with Tibet,...

A Biden presidency, climate and the Himalaya

With just 4% of the world’s population, the United States is responsible for over 15% of annual global carbon emissions. What America...

Sonia Awale

A new Cold War in the Himalaya

For centuries, the Himalaya served as any icy frontier between empires, but even though because of connectivity it is no longer a...

Forests replace glaciers in the Himalaya

[caption id="attachment_54080" align="alignnone" width="900"] Panoramic view of Manang Village and the Gangapurna and Annapurna III Glaciers that have retreated dramatically since 1980....

Tracing past glacial floods in Kangchenjunga

Glacial lake outburst floods are highly destructive events, usually caused when stored lake water is suddenly released by a triggering...