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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...]
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Yesterday, the U.N. Environment Programme said the majority of glaciers in the Hindu Kush - Himalayas and on the Tibetan Plateau are retreating, with some exceptions.
The Hindu Kush - Himalayas Climate Impact Adaptation Assessment Programme will run for five years, carried out by Norway's Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research, the U.N. Environment Programme and the Katmandu, Nepal - based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development.
Another recent study, for instance — just out last week in Science Advances — documented a general decline in snow water resources across High Mountain Asia, a region spanning from the Hindu Kush region to the Himalayas.
But I had a family and lots of commitments and although I did travel the world — from trekking in the high Himalayas to lone Buddhist temples, crossing the Hindu Kush and singing for my supper in the mining camps of the Australian deserts — I never made that final leap and bought myself a Camper.
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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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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.
The glaciers in the Hindu Kush - Himalayas are retreating, which scientists believe is the result of climate warming.
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