Groundwater reserves in High Mountain Asia are experiencing severe depletion annually due to a combination of climate impacts ...
Glaciers in High Mountain Asia—a region encompassing the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding mountain ranges—are shrinking rapidly, endangering water resources for millions of people, suggests a new ...
Water is the backbone of life, agriculture, and civilisation. Across Asia, freshwater availability depends heavily on one vast mountain system that stores ice, feeds rivers and sustains billions of ...
Sonam Sherpa doing research on the Yala glacier in the Central Himalaya region of High Mountain Asia. The Yala glacier has shrunk in area by nearly 70% since the 1970s due to climate change. Glaciers ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. More than 7% of mountain forests worldwide were lost between 2001 and 2018, with rates of loss almost doubling after 2010. Forest loss varied by ...
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