Tag: #climate change in Himalaya
Articles tagged with #climate change in Himalaya
Climate crisis ruins Himalayan pastoralists
Nepal’s shepherds leave their ancestral occupation due to climate change and outmigration
Including local knowledge to study climate change
Scientist couple spend six months researching climate impact on glaciers and biodiversity below Kangchenjunga
Dirty snow defrosts Nepal’s mountains
Soot and dust particles from pollution that settle on the Khumbu Glacier makes it melt faster. Photo: EELUM DIXIT.Fine suspended particles in…
Climate change drowns the American dream
Ang Gelu Lama, 50 and his two-year-old son Lobsang who drowned in their basement apartment on 1 September in New York City. Photos: FACEBOOKThe…
Himalayan floods a sign of worse to come
Nepal’s trans-Himalayan district of Manang is located in the rain-shadow, and is a high altitude desert. Its average annual rainfall is barely…
Nepal doubles its carbon footprint
Nepal’s per capita greenhouse gas emission may be negligible compared to industrialised countries, but it has doubled in the last seven years.…
Blueprint for a net-zero Nepal
Photo: NEPAL OIL CORPORATIONThe global pandemic hijacked 2020 and reset priorities, but countries now need to regroup and renew their commitment…
Terrifying assessment of a Himalayan melting
Photo: KUNDA DIXITWhile the global media’s attention is on the Greenland ice sheet, the Arctic and eastern Antarctica, a landmark report…