HKS Snow Update 2025
<p>The HKH Snow Update 2025 highlights a significant decline in seasonal snow across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, with snow persistence 23.6% below normal — the lowest in 23 years. This trend,
Brahmaputra
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Panel formed to fight flood, erosion
The nascent Brahmaputra Integrated Development Forum has constituted its technical advisory committee to prepare the action plans for the solution to the State’s flood and erosion problems According
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Dam on Brahmaputra: Delhi warns Beijing
Taking a note of China’s decision to construct three hydropower projects on the Brahmaputra River, India has conveyed its concern to the neighbouring country. India has urged China to ensure that the
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Erosion renders over 600 families homeless
Erosion by the River Brahmaputra took a serious turn in the last two weeks, rendering over 300 families homeless in Ghogadaho and Jattrapur unions under Kurigram Sadar upazila. Besides, Jattrapur Government
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Floods ravage five districts in State
GUWAHATI, June 25: A total of 105 people in five districts of the State have been affected by floods. These districts are Lakhimpur, Darrang, Sonitpur, Kamrup and Udalguri. Flood has been reported from
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Tibetan plateau glaciers ‘have shrunk by 15 per cent’
Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau – the source of rivers such as the Brahmaputra – have shrunk by as much as 15 per cent, retreating by 8,000 square kilometres since 1980, according to a new Chinese government-backed
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People lose cropland to river erosion in Gaibandha
GAIBANDHA: The people living along the banks of the Teesta and Brahmaputra rivers are losing their cropland and homesteads as erosion has taken serious turn here in the district. Onrush of water from
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Water supply by Himalayan mountains to increase in decades ahead
Despite retreating glaciers, the amount of water supplied by the Himalayan Mountains will increase in the coming decades, a study from FutureWater, Utrecht University and the International Centre for Integrated
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Erosion renders 300 families homeless in Kurigram
Erosion by the River Brahmaputra took a serious turn in the last one week, rendering at least 300 families in different villages homeless in Sadar and Rajibpur upazilas of Kurigram district. The affected
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Glaciers in Tibetan Plateau shrinking rapidly: Report
BEIJING: Glaciers in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, home to several Himalayan rivers, have been shrunk by 15 per cent in the past three decades and the situation could worsen in future due to global warming,
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Human chain formed in Kurigram to prevent river erosion
A human chain was formed on Saturday at Nayarchor area under Rajibpur upazila in Kurigram to prevent river erosion. Hundreds of people from all walks of life attended the human chain. As the water level