The ICIMOD report calls on HKH nations to share data on river flows, establish joint alert systems for floods and droughts, and develop an interconnected renewable energy grid to reduce dependency ...

The Ocean Policy Research Institute of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (OPRI-SPF) and the International Centre for Integrated ...

The Himalaya is also on the front lines of climate change, facing rapid glacial loss, permafrost melt and extreme disasters. In August 2024, the Thame Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF ...

Western disturbances are crucial for winter precipitation in northern India, but their changing patterns could lead to ...

The Himalayan nation is grappling with melting glaciers, erratic weather patterns, and growing climate-induced disasters, particularly floods ... The Hindu Kush Himalaya region, an 800-kilometer ...

Climate change is impacting the Indus river basin unevenly, affecting water-sharing agreements between India and Pakistan due to differing glacial melt rates.

However, the industry has seen regular impediments such as the Uttarakhand floods in 2013 and the pandemic ... jeep safaris and rafting and camping across the Himalaya. Over the next few years ...

Pakistan experienced devastating floods in 2022 following extreme summer ... From 1991 to 2015, the mean temperature across the Western Himalaya and Karakoram regions rose by 0.65°C, according ...

He noted that extreme heatwaves, unpredictable monsoons, and rapid glacial melt in the Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalaya region are exacerbating floods and droughts. Additionally, rising sea levels ...

While India does have the capacity to hurt Pakistan because of its position as an upper riparian state, building large dams in the seismically fragile Western Himalaya region can pose risks to its ...

He noted that extreme heatwaves, unpredictable monsoons, and rapid glacial melt in the Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalaya region are exacerbating floods and droughts. Additionally, rising sea levels ...

The indigenous people of Sagarmatha region in Nepal have been facing a gradual decline of locally produced crops, which are ...