Tag: glaciers

Slower flow of glaciers due to ice loss may affect freshwater...

A NASA-led study has shown Asia’s high mountain glaciers are flowing more slowly in response to widespread ice loss, which may affect freshwater availability...

Sweden’s highest peak melts away alarming experts

STOCKHOLM: Researchers expressed concern about the rapid pace of climate change after a glacier on Sweden’s Kebnekaise mountain melted so much in sweltering Arctic...

Growing glaciers prove cold comfort for Shimshal Valley in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Climate change is causing glaciers around the world to melt, raising the risk of flooding and other problems. But residents of a remote...

Pakistan’s glaciers face new threat of highway’s black carbon

This border outpost on the Karakoram Highway, slashed through the glacier-strewn Karakoram mountains to join China and Pakistan by road, boasts a new world...

Pakistan’s glaciers face new threat: Highway’s black carbon

  This border outpost on the Karakoram Highway, slashed through the glacier-strewn Karakoram mountains to join China and Pakistan by road, boasts a new world...