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«We are the soul, pearl and beauty of Hindu Kush Mountains»: exploring resilience and psychological wellbeing of Kalasha, an ethnic and religious minority group in Pakistan.
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Pabitra Mukhopadhyay: When it becomes clear that the increasing risk of GLOFs is the outcome of a global trend in climate change and when it is known that the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region has far too many retreating glaciers leaving far too many glacial lakes that may turn into GLOFs, two realities emerge: No single [continue reading...]
Another aspect is that looking on specifics of problems and development on national perspectives, the developing nations from Hindu Kush Himalaya and Andes are more marginalized in comparison to other.
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Suman K: The Hindu Kush Himalayan Region spans eight countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Pakistan, India, Myanmar, Nepal and China.
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The glaciers in the Hindu Kush - Himalayas are retreating, which scientists believe is the result of climate warming.
Researchers have found that the disappearance of glacial ice in third - largest region of ice on the planet - the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya - Hindu Kush mountains - is being sped up due to air pollution.
The third - largest region of ice on the planet is located on the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya - Hindu Kush mountains, also known as the Third Pole.
Scientific evidence shows that most glaciers in South Asia's Hindu Kush Himalayan region are retreating, but the consequences for the region's water supply are unclear, this report finds.
BONN: Regional environmental officers from countries home to the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) mountain range, including Pakistan, called on Tuesday for cooperation between the nations to help mountain communities adapt to changing weather patterns caused by global warming.
In terms of snow cover, in the central Himalayan - Hindu Kush region there has been an overall decrease in snow cover, while eastern and western parts of the region have seen an increase.
Warming across the Himalaya - Hindu Kush region has been 0.74 °C higher than the global average over the past 100 years, with warming on the Tibetan plateau being particularly pronounced, 1.35 °C higher than the global average.
Three new studies from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development detail the impact of climate change in the Himalayas and Hindu Kush mountain range.
A summary of the science regarding glacier melt / retreat in the Himalayan, Hindu Kush, Karakoram, Pamir, and Tien Shan mountain ranges.
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This activity report summarizes the main outcomes of the inter-regional workshop on the Human Health Impacts from Climate Variability and Climate Change in the Hindu Kush - Himalaya Region (India 2005).
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The Glaciers of the Hindu Kush - Himalayan Region.
The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region has received much attention as the source of rivers that supply water to 1.3 billion people downstream.
In a study published in Nature today, scientists assembled new datasets from Earth - observing satellites and found that glaciers in the Hindu Kush — Karakoram — Himalaya region (HKKH) lost 12 gigatonnes per year over the period 2003 — 08, much faster than previously reported.
Press Trust of India: Representatives from 16 countries, including India, today started deliberations on the impact of climate change - induced disasters in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region and ways of mitigating them.
The three - day international conference titled «Cryosphere of the Hindu Kush Himalaya: State of the Knowledge» and the Hindu Kush Himalayan Cryosphere Data Sharing workshop began [continue reading...]
Many of the continent's great rivers begin up in the snows, fed by melting ice in high - peak regions such as the Hindu Kush, the Pamir and the Himalayas.
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Agriculture in the Central Asian countries of Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan depends heavily on snowmelt from the Hindu Kush, Pamir, and Tien Shan mountain ranges for irrigation water.
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Many rivers draining glaciated regions, particularly in the Hindu Kush - Himalaya and the South - American Andes, are sustained by glacier melt during the summer season (Singh and Kumar, 1997; Mark and Seltzer, 2003; Singh, 2003; Barnett et al., 2005).
Floods, droughts, wildfires, windstorms, water contamination and illnesses plague the 1.3 billion people who live in the watersheds directly supplied by glacial melt from the Hindu Kush - Himalaya (HKH) region.
The majority of Pakistan's 190 million people are involved in agriculture: the Indus, fed by glaciers high up in the Hindu Kush - Karakoram Himalaya mountain range, provides water for 90 percent of the country's crops.
Republica: Nepal, India and Bhutan have formally reached an agreement to include a new cross-boundary landscape covering parts of eastern Nepal, Sikkim and the northern parts of West Bengal in India as Kangchenjunga landscape in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region.
The ICIMOD had supported the all - women K2 expedition as part of its commitment to integrate women into climate change research and adaptation and sustainable development in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) Region.
India has agreed on a plan to jointly protect and conserve the whole of the Kangchenjunga landscape in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region with Bhutan and Nepal.
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The News: Pakistan is facing serious threats due to climate changes fast taking place particularly in mountainous regions of Hindu Kush - Karakoram - Himalaya, it is learnt.
MRD: This paper presents a detailed review of atmospheric pollution observed in the Hindu Kush — Himalaya (HKH) region and its implications for regional climate.
Republica: President Dr Ram Baran Yadav on Sunday stressed the need for regional cooperation to address the issues of poverty and vulnerability in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region.
The second international conference on «Cryosphere of the Hindu Kush Himalayas: State of Knowledge» organised by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development with the support of the Royal Norwegian Embassy and the Embassy of the United States in Kathmandu has launched a publication titled Status and Decadal Glacier Change from 1980s to 2010 in Nepal [continue reading...]
MRD Journal: Abstract: Rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns across the Hindu Kush — Himalaya (HKH) region resulting from climate change have an influence on water resource availability and food security for the downstream population.
BioOne: The Hindu Kush — Himalayan (HKH) region encompasses a mountainous area of more than 4,192,000 km2 in the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan.
Using new remote sensing methods to generate an updated glacier inventory for the Karakoram region of Asia — which is part of the Hindu Kush - Karakoram - Himalaya mountain range located between the borders of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and China — Rankl et al. (2014) developed what they describe as «a new comprehensive dataset on the state of advancing, stable and retreating glaciers, including the temporal and spatial variations of frontal positions between 1976 and 2012.»
Pakistan's largely agrarian economy, Rasul noted, is mainly fed by the Hindu Kush - Karakoram and Himalayan glaciers that are reported receding due to global warming.
The report examines how changes to glaciers in the Hindu Kush - Himalayan region, which covers eight countries across Asia, could affect the area's river systems, water supplies, and the South Asian population.
Her past exhibitions include the BRIC Biennial, Brooklyn, NY (2016) at The Weeksville Heritage Center, Subject to Capital at Abrons Art Center, New York (2016), Arrivals, Out to See, New York City (2014), TX * 13 Texas Biennial 5th Anniversary Survey Group Exhibition, Texas (2014), Picturing Parallax, San Francisco State University, California (2011), Hindu Kush, and Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco (2009).
We also drove north towards the heart of the Hindu Kush via Salang Pass.
Though not the intimidatingly tall Hindu Kush mountain range, Jirisan and its neighbors are still a tall order.
The British saw the Hindu Kush of Afghanistan as a natural barrier to prevent invasion of their holdings in India; at the same time, the Russians were expanding south and east swallowing up parts of Central Asia.