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Himalayan glacial lakes’ size growing: Study

The number of glacial lakes in the Himalayas has reduced in recent years, but their total area has i...

World’s glaciers `losing 40% of their volume`

The Earth’s glaciers are seriously out of balance with the global climate and are already on their w...

Karakoram glaciers bucking global warming trend and ‘putting on mass’

Some glaciers on Asia’s Karakoram mountains, which is home to K2, are defying the global trend and g...

Global warming not sole reason for glacier melting

A top climate official of the country says there could be other reasons as well for melting of snow ...

`Himalayan glaciers shrunk by fifth in 30 yrs`

The reports, launched by ICIMOD at Durban meet, South Africa, form the most comprehensive ever asses...

`China`s glaciers shrink by 10%`

China`s glaciers have shrunk by a magnitude of 10 per cent over the past 60 years as a result of ris...

Old snow stays in Rockies, adds to glaciers` size

Scientists who monitor the effects of global warming are watching glaciers shrink all over the world...

`Glaciers in Tibet melting due to global warming`

Glaciers in southwest China`s Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, a key source of major rivers in this country ...

Glacial meltdown causing uncertain future in Asia

Himalayan glaciers are melting, creating an uncertain future for two billion people across Asia, acc...

Arctic melting Glaciers to speed up global warming

Researchers from the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), who returned from the Arctic assignm...

How did Antarctic succumb to ice age?

The rapid decline of glaciers along the peninsula has led to widespread speculation about how the re...

75% of Himalayan glaciers retreating: ISRO

Satellite images show that 75% of Himalayan glaciers have retreated over a period of 15 years.

Glaciers melting 100 times faster than thought

The findings have worrying implications for millions of people who rely on ice for fresh water.

Believe it or not - glaciers are growing!

The reason being that hotter summers may actually slow down the flow of glaciers.

Some Himalayan glaciers advancing, despite global warming

Some of the Himalayan glaciers are advancing, thanks to the presence of debris such as pebbles, rock...

Melting glaciers to cause 12 cm increase in sea-level by 2100

A new study has found that melt off from small mountain glaciers and ice caps will contribute about ...

`Rivers cut deep notches in Alps` glacial valleys`

The U-shaped valleys in Swiss Alps were created by slow-moving glaciers, reveals a new study.

Uttarakhand to set up Snow and Glaciers Authority

With an aim to conserve Himalayan glaciers which are receding at a fast rate, the Uttarakhand gove...

Glaciers help actively growing mountains become higher

A University of Arizona-led research team has found that glaciers can help actively growing mountain...

Himalayan glaciers showing consistent recession

A study by the Geological Survey of India has found that Himalayan glaciers in Gouri Ganga and Alak...

Photos show dramatic shrinking of Everest glaciers

Glaciers on Mount Everest are rapidly shrinking, according to startling new photographs.

Uttarakhand to set up authority to conserve glaciers

Uttarakhand Government is planning to set up an authority with the aim of conserving Himalayan gla...

Shrinking glaciers to spark food shortages: Study

Nearly 60 mn people living around the Himalayas will suffer food shortages in the coming decades.

`Gaumukh` to be out of bounds for tourists for eco reasons

Tourists will not be allowed to go near `Gaumukh`, the source of the Ganga, with the Uttarakhand gov...

Almost all Austrian glaciers shrank in 2009: Report

Almost 90 percent of Austrian glaciers shrank in 2009, some by as much as 46 metres (150 feet), the ...

Two more glaciers gone from Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park has lost two more of its glaciers to climate change and many of the rest may b...

Himalayan glaciers retreated by 16 % in nearly 5 decades: ISRO

Himalayan glaciers retreated by 16 per cent in the last nearly five decades due to climate change,...

NASA mission prepares for study of arctic glaciers

NASA`s Operation IceBridge mission, the largest airborne survey ever flown of Earth`s polar ice, is ...

Need for precise information on climate change: Shyam Saran

Against the backdrop of an IPCC report making a wrong conclusion about Himalayan glaciers melting, P...

Glacier melting issue: Soot from India causing decline in ice cover

Now a physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Surabhi Menon has set out to isolate impacts of g...

`Errors in report do not undermine case of global warming`

An Australian scientist, who co-authoured the controversial climate change report, on Monday tried t...

BASIC ministers support IPCC despite Himalayan blunder

Environment ministers of Brazil, South Africa, India, China came out in support of the Intergovernme...

Pachauri won`t quit over glacier blunder

Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Saturday said he would not q...

Himalayan glaciers are in retreat: UN body

Himalayan glaciers are retreating, and small glaciers will probably disappear by the end of the cent...

IPCC chief goes mum on Himalayan glacier blunder

RK Pachauri, head of the IPCC, refused to answer any question on the goof-up by the global scientist...

Himalayan glaciers won’t retreat by 2035: Ramesh

Jairam Ramesh dismissed the IPCC report which claimed that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035...

Swiss glaciers melting slower now than in 1940s!

Contrary to popular perception that glaciers are melting faster due to global warming, a study says ...

No significant decrease in glaciers in Sikkim: Expert

There has been no significant decrease in glaciers in Sikkim due to global warming and climate chang...

Chamling expresses concern at receding glaciers

Chamling today expressed concern at the receding glaciers across the world, including Sikkim, due ...

Melting Himalayan glaciers threaten 1.3 bn

Melting Himalayan glaciers threaten to bring drought to large swathes of the Asian continent.

Smaller glaciers more vulnerable to climate change: Study

Smaller Himalayan glaciers are proving much more vulnerable to climate change than the area`s larger...

Govt findings on Himalayan glaciers misleading: NGO

Terming the Environment Ministry`s recent report on non-receding of Himalayan glaciers as false co...

Pachauri flays govt-backed report on glaciers’ melting

Rubbishing the claim by a govt-backed study that melting of glaciers was not due to climate change, ...

Centre planned to study melting of Himalayan glaciers

A glaciology centre, the first of its kind in the country, will be set up in one of the Himalayan ...

Glaciers in Himalayas and Tibetan plateau melting fast

Scientists have determined that glaciers in the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau are melting faster...

American glaciers shrinking dramatically

Reports indicate that most glaciers in Washington and Alaska in the US are dramatically shrinking in...

Melting glaciers threaten `Nepal tsunami`

Over two decades, Funuru Sherpa has watched the lake above his native village of Dengboche in Nepal`...

Himalayan glaciers grew 9,000 years ago

A new study by the US scientists has pieced together the chain of events surrounding the unexpected ...

Climate cuts mountains down to size: Study

Climate, and not the upward thrust of Earth`s clashing tectonic plates, is the main factor limiting ...

‘Glaciers melting due to weather variations’

Himalayan glaciers, including the Siachen, are not melting because of global warming, scientists cla...

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