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Asian glaciers slowed by ice loss, claims study
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 14 (ANI): Asian glaciers are flowing more slowly in response to widespread ice loss, affecting freshwater availability downstream in India, Pakistan, and China, a new study has suggested.
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Glaciers melting in Gilgit-Baltistan due to CPEC project
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Gilgit [Pakistan occupied Kashmir], Mar 4 (ANI): Thirty-six glacial lakes in various valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan have been declared dangerous with seven of them posing a major threat to the people, said a survey by Focus Pakistan, an NGO.
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Carbon emissions put Pakistan's glaciers in danger
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 5 (ANI): Increase in the carbon emissions and the soot from various vehicles that pass through Khunjerab Pass in the Karakoram Mountain range will lead to melting glaciers in Pakistan, experts have warned.
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Greenland's ice more at risk than previously believed
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 2 (ANI): According to new maps of Greenland's coastal seafloor and bedrock beneath its massive ice sheet, two to four times as many coastal glaciers are at risk of accelerated melting as had previously been thought.
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Patrolling is an operational requirement of Army: Col N. Kumar
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 28 (ANI): Acknowledging that patrolling at Siachen glaciers is an ardent task for the armed forces to carry out, (Retd.) Colonel N Kumar, who is also called the 'Siachen Saviour', said the army has an operational requirement to patrol the glaciers as it woul
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