Glaciers
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Ice stupas of the Ladakh desert: an ingenious solution to water scarcity – a picture essay
Farmers in the northern Indian region used to rely on snow and glacier meltwater, but the climate crisis is di…
- Bhutan, Climate crisis, Climate science, Education, Environment, Glaciers, Mountaineering, Mountains, South and Central Asia, World news
Bhutan Mountain Man: video diaries from a lone glaciologist
Phuntsho Tshering is Bhutan’s glacier specialist and the only person authorised to climb the Himalayan country…
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Bhutan Mountain Man: video diaries from a lone glaciologist
Phuntsho Tshering is Bhutan’s glacier specialist and the only person authorised to climb the Himalayan country…
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Indonesia’s tropical Eternity Glaciers could vanish within years, experts say
El Niño weather pattern could accelerate melting, leading to sea level riseTwo of the world’s few tropical gla…
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‘Slipping through our fingers’: New Zealand scientists distraught at scale of glacier loss
Research institute NIWA predicts many of country’s most important glaciers will be gone within the decade The …
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, Avalanches, Environment, Glaciers, Mountaineering, Mountains, New Zealand
Photos from ‘beyond the grave’: camera discovery reveals climber’s last images before fatal avalanche
Two decades ago Richard Stiles escaped an avalanche in New Zealand, but friend Steve Robinson wasn’t so lucky.…
- Art and design, Culture, Environment, Glaciers, Kazakhstan, Mountains, Photography, Polar regions, South and Central Asia, World news
Tourists flock to Kazakh glaciers – in pictures
Prevented from travelling abroad by the Covid pandemic, locals are instead visiting the magnificent glaciers o…
- Climate change, Environment, Glaciers, India, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Mountains, Science, South and Central Asia, Tibet
The world has a third pole – and it’s melting quickly
An IPCC report says two-thirds of glaciers on the largest ice sheet after the Arctic and Antarctic are set to …