The Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH) are facing a huge glacier loss, more than the global average, with mass loss 65% higher than ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Climate change and “unsustainable human activities” are driving “unprecedented changes” to mountains and glaciers, a UN report warns.

Climate change is causing major changes in the cryosphere – the ice and snow – in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region ... hazards caused by changes in the snow and ice in the high mountains of Asia. We ...

Chitral Gol National Park, nestled in the Hindu Kush mountains of western Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan, is one of the last strongholds for the species, and also happens to be the ...

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 ...