Through streamflow reconstructions for 1,300 yrs using instrumental data & hydrological modelling, IIT Gandhinagar study shows Ganga 'drying from 1991-2020 is unmatched in past millennium'.
Findings will go a long way in understanding patterns of other rivers & helping policymakers find more effective ways to rejuvenate them, says IIT-Roorkee head.
Scientists from Nagaland University & Cotton University document how global warming led to more glaciers melting in Eastern Himalayas. Study published in Journal of Earth System Science.
The images can be used to investigate other glaciers or ice shelves, changes to coastlines, penguin colonies, the expansion of vegetation, or even direct human impacts.
Located at 4,500 m above sea level in Manaslu region, Birendra Tal burst banks Sunday due to avalanche dumping ice into it. Lake is currently reported to be 'returning to normal'.
A Border Roads Organisation Camp came under an avalanche in the afternoon of 23 April after a heavy snowfall in Sumna area of Chamoli district of Uttarakhand.
The Tapovan hydroelectric dam, also known as the Rishi Ganga project, was completely washed off in the flash flood, the IAF said in its initial report.
Shishpar Glacier in the geologically-volatile Karakoram mountains has surged, blocking another glacier nearby and creating a lake that could spell disaster.
The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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