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Jungfraujoch’s foreboding temperatures this September at the top of the world in Switzerland at 2.25 miles altitude alarmed glaciologists. If anybody has

Rice production is facing a major shortage due to climate-related factors such as floods, droughts, and severe weather. This puts food security and livelihoods at risk as prices rise.

There are alternative pathways to avert danger.

Experts gathered in Kathmandu for the first-ever Inter-Polar Conference, organized jointly by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland. They called for regional cooperation and sharing of insights between the Arctic and the Hindu Kush Himalayas, as both regions are facing temperature rise and the thawing of the cryosphere. The conference aims to bridge the knowledge gap and find sustainable solutions to the common ch...

Recent Analysis reveals that the Himalayas used to be protected from cyclones because of the regularity of the climate. In contrast, the current erratic occurrences of monsoons are causing more avalanches. Read more here.

Officially, nearly 400 people and over 16,000 animals have died across the state, while damage to infrastructure and property has run into thousands of crores of rupees.

Nearly a dozen policies and programmes intended to support new firms are gathering dust, analysts say.

Every summer, Pakistan braces for flooding as the monsoon season and growing summer heatwaves cascade to trigger a series of flood emergencies all over the country. This year too, thousands of...

Kuensel Online

In a shocking discovery, an alpine guide found the remains of an Austrian man believed to have died 22 years ago, the authorities revealed on Tuesday.