The State of Climate report, released by the World Meteorological Organization, a specialised agency of the United Nations, has found that four principal indicators of climate change — greenhous...

Researchers in Nepal on Tuesday warned that the highest glacier on the top of Mount Everest could disappear by the middle of this century as the 2,000-year-old ice cap on the world’s tallest mou...

The Himalayan glaciers are shrinking far more rapidly than glaciers elsewhere in the world and have already lost ice equivalent to that in the central European Alps, the Caucasus and Scandinavia combi...

Ice loss in glaciers across the Himalayas has doubled over the past 20 years compared with the preceding two decades, scientists said on Wednesday, adding fresh evidence for the impact of global warmi...