Farmers in northern Pakistan feel the heat
This year, an early and hotter start to the summer has forced farmers to change the crop cycle in Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Pakistan
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This year, an early and hotter start to the summer has forced farmers to change the crop cycle in Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Pakistan
During the long hot summer, monsoon rains are no less than a blessing for South Asian countries. It would not be an exaggeration to call monsoon the...
The writer is a social development and policy adviser, and a freelance columnist based in Islamabad.Gilgit-Baltistan has become the hub of private...
Hospitality industry is now growing like a concrete jungle without any regard to the environmental, social and cultural sensitivities of the area
E-Mail IMAGE: Aufeis formation in the area of a flat valley section below a springshed at 4,400 meters view more Credit: © Marcus Nüsser / Heidelberg University Seasonally occurring fields of aufeis (icing) constitute an important resource for the water supply of the local population in the Upper Indus Basin. However, little research has been done on them so far. Geographers at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University have now examined the spreading of aufeis and, for the first time, created a full inventory of these aufeis fields. The more than 3,700 accumulations of l...