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11 Jan 2023
UNGA approves President Rahmon’s initiative on Glacier Preservation
On the 14th of December 2022, the UN General Assembly unanimously supported an initiative by the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, H.E. Emomali Rahmon, and adopted a resolution declaring 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers Preservation. This initiative was proposed by the President on the 3rd of March 2021 at the first High-Level Panel of the Water and Climate Coalition Leaders Meeting...
26 Jun 2022 BEIJING, China
"Third Pole" Water Imbalances Examined
Glacier mass in the Himalaya Kush has declined dramatically in the past 40 years due to an increase in temperature of 0.42C in each decade. Scientists have identified a shift in water stored in regional basins.
1 Apr 2022 BENGALURU, India
Glacier Retreat Likely To Cause Water Shortage In The Ganges
Analysis of satellite images and field observations reveals that that the number of glaciers in the Alaknanda river basin has increased from 98 to 116 in the past 30 years. Bigger glaciers have broken into smaller ones. Warmer winters targeted as the culprit.
9 Jan 2022 KATHMANDU, Nepal
Himalayan Glacier Melt 10 Times Faster
Glacier melt in "third pole" will adversely affect livelihoods of an estimated 1.65 billion people living downstream. Faster change is likely to result in greater landscape instability, increased risk of landslides, avalanches, and floods.
1 Jun 2021 Nuuk, Greenland
High Levels Of Mercury Contamination Found In Greenland Glacier Meltwater
New research of Greenland glaciers reveals alarmingly high concentrations of mercury. Implications for the country's seafood export industry. Concentrations similar to rivers in India and China.
5 May 2021 Delhi, India
Another Glacier Break In India Kills 15, With 3 Still Missing
A second fatal glacier break in the Garhwal Himalayas in Uttarakhand state occurred 60 km from the site of Nanda Devi burst that killed 80 just 11 weeks ago.
4 May 2021 TOULOUSE, France
Glacier Melt's Contribution To Rising Sea Levels
Satellite data offers new methods of measuring individual glacier elevation and mass; regional variations detected. Glacier melt accelerating and contributing to sea level rise.
10 Feb 2021 LIMA, Peru
Definitive Causal Linkages Will Support Milestone Climate Change Lawsuit
Researchers say they have confirmed linkages showing global warming is directly responsible for creating a “critical threat” of devastating flooding in the Peruvian Andes.The findings represent a critical piece of missing evidence for lawyers suing German power giant RWE on behalf of Saúl Luciano Lliuya, a farmer from Huaraz...
9 Feb 2021 New Delhi, India
Investigation Launched After Deadly Himalaya Glacier Collapse
26 have died and as many as 200 are missing after a glacier collapse in northern India on 8 February, causing deadly flooding in the state of Uttarakhand.On the morning of 7 February the glacier collapsed near Reni village of Chamoli in Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand resulting in a high-speed surge of water to pour down the Rishiganga river completely destroying one hydroelectric dam and damaging another...
4 Feb 2021 DELHI, India
India Concern Over China's Upstream Brahmaputra Intentions
Any attempt by China to build a mega dam upstream of the Brahmaputra River would be an “encroachment on the entitled rights of lower riparian states like India and Bangladesh,” the government of India has said. A 20 January statement released by the Jal Shakti Ministry (India’s ministry for water) and widely reported in the Indian media following a meeting of the nation’s Central Water Commission added that such a move would “adversely affect the availability of water in the Brahmaputra basin during the lean season”...
11 Jan 2021 LA PAZ
Bolivia: Glacier Melt May Accelerate Capital's Water Shortages
Bolivia’s Tuni glacier is disappearing faster than initially anticipated, according to scientists in the Andean nation, a predicament that will likely make worse water shortages already plaguing the capital La Paz, just 60 km away. Scientists from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), who monitor the Tuni and other regional glaciers, indicate that the once sprawling glacier had been reduced to just one square kilometer...
3 Jan 2021 EDMONTON
Christmas Oil Spill Hits North Saskatchewan River
Contaminated water that leaked from an oilfield pipeline on Christmas Day has entered the North Saskatchewan River but has had no detectable impact on it, says a spokesman for Calgary-based oil and gas producer ARC Resources Ltd. The leaked produced water flowed into an unnamed creek and then into the North Saskatchewan River, a glacier-fed major waterway that flows east through Edmonton and into central Saskatchewan, where it joins with the South Saskatchewan River and eventually flows into Hudson Bay...