The Climate Vulnerability Monitor is a new tool built to assess the vulnerability of our world to the many effects…
Glacial meltwater can be a crucial water source for human populations living in river basins, raising concerns about the affect…
A major new report released today provides an assessment of impact of climate change in 2030s on four key sectors…
Scientists say desertification of the mountain grasslands of the Tibetan plateau is accelerating climate change
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The 2009 State of the Climate report draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the…
In January, when the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change acknowledged that it was wrong in predicting that the…
Floods, droughts, wildfires, windstorms, water contamination and illnesses plague the 1.3 billion people who live in the watersheds directly supplied…
Walter W. Immerzeel, Ludovicus P. H. van Beek, Marc F. P. Bierkens
More than 1.4 billion people depend on water from…
Compared with other mountainous regions worldwide, Himalayan glaciers are losing mass faster than European glaciers but slower than those in…
Kenneth Hewitt, February 01, 2010
Reports about the melting – and advancing – of Himalayan glaciers have sparked heated debate. In…
The fact that glaciers in the Himalayan mountains are thinning is not disputed. However, few researchers have attempted to rigorously…
In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said it…
The intense public debate on how rapidly the Himalayan glaciers are retreating highlights the necessity for the constant monitoring of…
Climate change was a brutal reality for hundreds of millions of people in 2009: the Indian monsoon failed, drought afflicted…
Heft 8 of the IHP/HWRP Berichte, based on the lectures held at the international workshop on ‘Snow, glacier and water…
Glaciers respond directly and quickly to atmospheric conditions. As temperatures warm, summer melting increases. However, accumulation of ice in the…
Climate change is posing a serious threat to communities in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region, bringing both drought and catastrophic floods…
At the United Nations climate negotiations in Copenhagen, the International Geosphere-Biosphere programme launches the IGBP Climate-Change Index.
The index brings together…
The climate and development organization Germanwatch published its Global Climate Risk Index 2010 in Copenhagen today, ranking Bangladesh, Myanmar and…
We must act today to stop treating the atmosphere like an ashtray. Global warming is already claiming 300,000 lives each…
WWF and Allianz climate report
If tipping points that are mainly triggered by rising global temperatures were unleashed, the world’s diverse…
“No Place Like Home” highlights the humanitarian plight of an estimated 150 million people whose homes will be lost as…
Glaciers in Kyrgyzstan are melting at a faster rate and creating new challenges for water management in Central Asia, the…
Deep in the Himalayas, the disappearance of glaciers is threatening the kingdom of Bhutan. Anjali Nayar trekked through the mountains…
A new map illustrating the global consequences of failing to keep temperature change to under 2 °C was launched today…
South Asian ministers will gather in Nepal next week for talks on the threat that climate change poses to the…
Due to global warming, glaciers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are retreating extensively at a speed faster than in any other…
In the 1950s Austrian and Swiss scientists conducted extensive studies of the Everest region in Nepal. Photos taken by these…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) in 2007. Since the IPCC considers only…
The PREVIEW Global Risk Data Platform is a multiple agencies effort to share spatial data information on global risk from…
Unless aggressive measures are taken to halt global warming, the consequences for human migration and displacement could reach a scope…
The recent erratic climate patterns being experienced in the Himalayas are all hinting towards linkages with climate change. The situation…
Former Vice President Al Gore, foreign ministers and climate change scientists will meet on 28 April in the town of…
Over en milliard mennesker er afhængige af vandet i de floder, der udspringer i Himalaya. Men global opvarmning smelter gletsjerne…
