mountain regions
Abstracts for the I International Conference on Research for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions are still being accepted. Researchers, practitioners, experts and decision-makers...
The place most likely to be struck by lightning in the world is one spot above Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, according to new data.
Over this mountain lake, there was a lightning show an astounding 297 days out of 365 days a year, on average. Even more surprising, the ...
More than 120 representatives of organizations from across Central Asia and from around the world whose work is dedicated to the concerns of mountain societies and environments, gathered in Dushanbe for the first ever Forum of Mountain Countries taking place in...
A controversy erupted on the projected speed of glacial melt in the Himalayas after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) erroneously quoted non-peer reviewed study in 2009 stating Himalayan glaciers were likely to disappear altogether by 2035. They later admitted it as...
ISLAMABAD: Glaciers across the world are seriously threatened by climate change and global warming, warned international experts in a recently-released report.
The team of scientists came together as part of the...
Please consider submitting an abstract to the 2013 AGU Session on "Observational Networks of Mountain Social-Ecological Systems"...
