The Shift in Rainfall Deficit In February, J&K faced a staggering rainfall deficit of 83 percent, a situation that raised alarms about potential water shortages. However, thanks to a major wet spell ...
Charles Kibaki Muchiri traced the water trickling across the surface of the Lewis Glacier with his fingers, illustrating how ...
In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global temperatures rise. Europe’s Alps and Pyrenees lost 40 per ...
Between 2022 and 2024, glaciers suffered their largest three-year mass loss ever, raising concerns about water shortages, ...
Himalayan glaciers are not just frozen reservoirs of water; they are the lifeblood of South Asia. These colossal ice masses feed major river systems, including the Ganges, Indus, and Brahmaputra, ...
As glaciers melt faster, they also pose potentially lethal risks, like too much water behind dams, landslides and debris ...
The terrain is also incredibly diverse; skiers zoom down two different mountains, Whistler and Blackcomb, which, together, ...
March 25, 2025 - According to the UN World Water Development Report 2025, mountains provide up to 60% of the world’s annual ...
Mass loss of ice from the world’s 19 glacier regions was 450bn tonnes in 2024, says a new report from the UN’s World ...
As the world focuses on glacier preservation on UN World Water Day, researchers at the University of Waterloo are exploring ...
World Water Day highlights the pressing challenges surrounding global water resources and the actions needed to address them.
As the world prepares to observe World Water Day on March 22, 2025, the focus sharpens on the indispensable role of ...