A new scientific study has revealed that the Hindu Kush Himalaya — a critical water source for nearly two billion people — ...

Glacier loss, also known as glacier melt or glacial retreat, refers to the reduction of ice mass in glaciers and ice sheets.

At least a third of the ice in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, an area that includes the world’s highest peaks Mount Everest and K2, could melt by the end of this century according to an ...

New Delhi — Glaciers in the Hindu Kush region of the Himalaya mountains are melting at the fastest rate ever and could shed as much as 80% of their ice by the end of this century if global ...

If countries can limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the study published in the journal Science said 40-45 per cent of glacier ice in the Himalayas and the Caucasus ...

Vast glaciers make the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region - home to the world's highest peaks, including Mount Everest and K2 - a "third pole" behind Antarctica and the Arctic region. Philippus ...

The stark finding, contained in a Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment published Monday, adds to a growing body of research warning that the Hindu-Kush region faces potentially profound consequences ...

One of the most complete studies on mountain warming, the Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment was put together over five years by 210 authors. The report includes input from more than 350 researchers ...

Led by Karen Anderson, a geographer at the University of Exeter, researchers took a close look at the subnival ecosystem of the Hindu Kush Himalaya mountains—an area that sits above the treeline ...

28, No. 3/4, Aug. - Nov., 2008 ICIMOD's Position on Climate Change and ... ICIMOD's Position on Climate Change and Mountain Systems: The Case of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas This is the metadata section.

The Hindu Kush Himalaya could lose up to 75 per cent of its glaciers by the year 2100 if global temperatures rise by 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, revealed a study published by ...