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  India rebukes Shehbaz Sharif over Indus Treaty charge, says 'appalled by misuse' at UN meet

  India | June 01, 2025 9:27 IST

  India strongly rebutted Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's remarks accusing New Delhi of violating the Indus Waters Treaty. Minister of State for Environment Kirti Vardhan Singh said it was Pakistan that was violating the treaty through its continued cross-border terrorism.

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  Swiss village buried as glacier collapse triggers massive landslide, scary videos show devastation

  World | May 29, 2025 23:42 IST

  A catastrophic landslide triggered by the collapse of Switzerland's Birch Glacier has buried nearly 90% of the Alpine village of Blatten in Valais canton. The village had been evacuated earlier in May due to visible cracks in the glacier. One man remains missing, while no deaths have been reported.

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  Venezuela becomes first nation to lose all glaciers after last one downgraded to 'ice field'

  World | May 10, 2024 18:00 IST

  Venezuela had six glaciers spanning 10 square km in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida mountain range but lost five of them by 2011. Climate scientists found that the last Humboldt glacier shrunk to an area of less than 2 hectares, thus downgrading it from a glacier to an ice field.

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  83 per cent of glaciers on track to disappear by 2100 | Explained

  Science | January 06, 2023 9:59 IST

  The glacier crisis has a direct link with flood menace and unprecedented change in the climate. The loss of glaciers is about more than rising seas means shrinking water supplies for a big chunk of the world's population.

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  Pakistan floods show that climate adaptation requires international support and regional co-op

  World | September 07, 2022 12:44 IST

  The heat accelerated glacier melting, followed by unprecedented rainfall patterns during July and August. The loss of lives since mid-June 2022 currently stands at over 1,300. And it is estimated that the number of people affected by the floods is around 33 million.

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  Know truth behind 'Glacier Blood' and why is it key to understand climate change

  June 08, 2021 21:03 IST

  Recently, many people were shocked to see dark red blotches in the snow of Alps Glaciers in France that looked like blood. Scientists have now said that these red stains are known as, 'Glacier Blood'. Know why is it an important key to understand climate change.

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  Uttarakhand: Scientists conduct aerial survey of glaciers in Chamoli, team to submit report to Govt

  India | May 30, 2021 7:52 IST

  A team of scientists on Saturday conducted an aerial survey of glaciers at the origin of Rishiganga river in Chamoli.

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  Uttarakhand: Glacier burst near India-China border, govt on high alert

  India | April 24, 2021 9:18 IST

  The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) said water level in the Rishi Ganga river has risen by two feet.

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  Antarctica's 'doomsday glacier' will melt faster than thought

  World | April 13, 2021 8:33 IST

  Among other things, it measured the strength, temperature, salinity and oxygen content of the ocean currents under the glacier and found variations.   

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  Tropical mountain top glaciers may melt by next decade, or sooner: Study

  World | December 10, 2019 12:46 IST

  The researchers from Ohio State University in the US said the first glaciers to go could be the ones in Papua, Indonesia, which they called "the canaries in the coal mine" for other mountain top glaciers around the world.

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  'We are certainly on threshold': The Arctic is warming much faster than the earth

  Science | December 06, 2019 11:00 IST

  The Arctic has warmed by 0.75 degrees Celsius in the last decade alone, whereas the Earth as a whole has warmed by nearly the same amount over the past 137 years, according to a study which examined the global consequences of continued polar warming. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, documented the effects of warming in the Arctic and Antarctic on wildlife, traditional human livelihoods, tundra vegetation, methane release, and loss of sea- and land ice.

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  Utarakhand: Glacier melting, monsoon rains responsible for tragedy

  India | July 26, 2013 18:26 IST

  New Delhi, Jul 26: Melting of glaciers coupled with monsoon rains, triggering overflow of rivers, were responsible for the Uttarakhand tragedy, a top official of the Ministry of Earth Sciences said here today.“The flood was