An environment conference has opened in Nepal to discuss global climate change, including the impact on the highest Himalayan ...

Climate change in the Indian region of ... Europe’s first ice stupa, in the Swiss Alps, and this year he’ll work on refreezing a glacial lake in India to halt flash floods.

This can impact hydropower plants as it will cause short-term and long-term flooding from flash floods and Glacial ... and the building of roads in the Himalayan region. This will reduce the ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres sent a video message to the Nepalese government on Friday, warning that the Himalayan glaciers are rapidly melting and urging immediate action. Guterres ...

Among the 676 expanding lakes, the majority are moraine-dammed (307), followed by erosion (265), other (96), and ice ... in the Himalayan region. These bodies of water, created by the melting ...

A high level of glaciers melting in the Himalayan mountains because of global warming has raised signficant concerns. Melting snow and ice have exposed ... They say flash floods and avalanches ...

Nepal will mark the rapid melting of a crucial glacier ... is the first in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, which holds the third largest volume of ice on Earth after the two polar geographic ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An environment conference opened in Nepal on Friday to discuss global climate change, including the impact on the highest Himalayan peaks where snow and ice are melting.