Pakistan is deficient in forest resources, as only 5 percent of total geographical area of the country is under forest cover and that, too, is under pressure due to various factors, including use of forest lands for non-forestry purposes and illegal logging.

The High-Level Dialogue between India and the EU met in Delhi on 3-4 February alongside the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) under the joint chairmanship of Nitin Desai and Sir Crispin Tickell.

The High-Level Dialogue between India and the EU met in Delhi on 3-4 February alongside the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) under the joint chairmanship of Nitin Desai and Sir Crispin Tickell.

Water shortages mostly due to poor management

Fresh data confirming accelerated warming over western Himalayas just ahead of the onset of the Indian monsoon year after year could have important implications for the monsoon as well as the Himalayan glaciers, experts say.

To give an impetus to the study of Indian glaciers, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has signed a first-of-its-kind Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Mountaineering Federation (IMF), hoping to combine the scientific study and assessment of India

Fundamental to the onset of the Indian Summer Monsoon is the land-sea thermal gradient from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayas-Tibetan Plateau (HTP). The timing of the onset is strongly controlled by the meridional tropospheric temperature gradient due to the rapid pre-monsoon heating of the HTP compared to the relatively cooler Indian Ocean.

LONDON: The massive Antarctic iceberg is

The mighty Siachen glacier was once 150 kilometres long and was covered with 600 mt of ice. The glacier length today stands at only 74 km, following a melting in the Holocene era 8,000 years ago writes Kalyan Ray

China will start backing up its shrinking glaciers with 59 meltwater reservoirs this year as the cost of climate change hits home in the world's most populous nation.

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