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How a Mexican spiritual leader preserves the sacred knowledge of the volcano known as El Popo

Biodiversity will suffer even if the global temperature rise is maintained at 1.5 degrees Celsius  

A new report Tuesday, June 20, from a Nepal-based research organization finds that water security for nearly 2 billion people living downstream of rivers that originate in the Himalayan ranges will likely be threatened by the end of this century due to rapid glacier melt if global warming is not controlled.

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

KATHMANDU: Himalayan glaciers providing critical water to nearly 2 billion people are melting faster than ever before due to climate change, exposing communities to unpredictable and costly disasters, scientists warned on Tuesday.

Absent urgent climate action, glaciers in the Hindu Kush range could lose up to 80 percent of their volume by 2100.

A report from a Nepal-based research organization finds that water security for nearly 2 billion people downstream from the Hindu Kush Himalayan ranges will likely be threatened this century if global warming is not controlled.

Rivers in east and north east are also under climate impact scanner  

Himalayan glaciers providing critical water to nearly two billion people are melting faster than ever before due to climate change, exposing communities to unpredictable and costly disasters, scientists warned yesterday.

A report from a Nepal-based research organization finds that water security for nearly 2 billion people downstream from the Hindu Kush Himalayan ranges will likely be threatened this century if global warming is not controlled.