KATHMANDU – Raging water disrupted life in Thame village—home to some of Nepal’s famed Sherpas—when a glacial lake in the ...

Glaciers across the globe are vanishing at alarming rates, with those in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region experiencing ...

It is common knowledge that the world’s glaciers have been melting. What is not common knowledge is that the pace has ...

From the Andes to the Hindu Kush Himalaya, UNESCO warns that many of the planet’s glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates ...

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has responded to a series of alarming reports from United Nations agencies, confirming that many glaciers in the Hindu Kush ...

He has hiked across the Hindu Kush mountains and hidden out in caves with guerrilla fighters. In Kabul he was an eyewitness to the factional struggles that ravaged the city out of which the ...

For people who love the mountains and exploring these hidden trails, here are a few glaciers that you must visit before they ...

Snowboarders Musawer Khanzai and Nasima Zirak once trudged up the steep, snowy slopes of Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains on foot. However, the Taliban's resurgence shattered their dreams ...

Climate change is causing major changes in the cryosphere – the ice and snow – in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region. Temperatures are rising faster than ... the challenges posed by natural hazards caused ...

XI’AN, Mar 13 (China Economic Net) - Northwest University (NWU) and Karakoram International University (KIU) are planning to conduct joint scientific expeditions in Pamir-Hindu Kush-Karakoram region ...

ISLAMABAD: Climate change is the key driver of more frequent and less predictable floods in the mountains of the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, an analysis of 73 years of flooding events has found.