EnvironmentTwo reports released before COP31 warn that even a temporary overshoot of 1.5°C would cause lasting ice loss, while a UN-led study counts 6,119 deaths from glacial lake floods in India since 1835.
EnvironmentDoodh Ganga, the Jhelum tributary that supplies much of uptown Srinagar, is losing snow and glacier melt while construction has buried part of its course, leaving households with dry taps for days.
EnvironmentOur Atmosphere and Climate 2026 says glacier ice fell from 56 to 30 cubic kilometres since 1997, and projects drier productive land, heavier rain and longer wildfire seasons.
EnvironmentThe Swiss glacier monitoring network's annual report says glaciers thinned by 2.5 to 4 metres on average in 2026, and Switzerland has lost 19.4 percent of its glacier ice in five years.
EnvironmentPeru stabilised 35 glacial lakes in the 20th century, but budget cuts and decentralisation have left 528 lakes at risk of bursting, as glaciers shrink and water security worsens for the 60-65% of Peruvians who rely on glacier-fed rivers.
A World Weather Attribution study says human-caused climate change helped create the conditions for the rock and glacier collapse on Langtang Lirung that sent a deadly flood through the Nepal-Tibet border region, where the number of missing has been revised up to 6,150.
A new report estimates that Himalayan water underpins about 20 percent of India's GDP and sustains its wheat, rice and tea economies.
