Siachen Glacier is known as the Crown of the Himalayas because it is one of the largest and highest glaciers in the Himalayan ...

A new study reveals that the mass loss of lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya has been significantly underestimated, due to the inability of satellites to see glacier changes occurring ...

The weather in the remote snow-capped Himalayas has deteriorated significantly these days. Temperatures in Ladakh, Kargil, ...

There are only three major parts of the globe that are substantially covered with ice and snow all year round. The Arctic, the Antarctic, and the least well known, the Greater Himalayas, or "the abode ...

The Himalayas are home to some of the world's most magnificent peaks and largest glaciers, which supply crucial seasonal flows to rivers across Asia. Yet they are disappearing at an alarming rate.

ISLAMABAD: The Abu Dhabi Dialogue Group comprising seven states sharing the rivers rising in the Greater Himalayas is expected to meet early next month to adopt a joint initiative to minimise the ...

The melting of Himalayan glaciers is more severe than expected, a new study has found, in the latest warning against the region’s accelerating ice loss and its far-reaching consequences, including ...

Long-standing warnings about the Himalayan region’s vulnerability have been ignored. Recent landslides and floods in J&K were compounded by deforestation. The most affected areas are in the ...

A quantitative assessment of drinking water sources in the Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal ...