The recent glacier-related disaster in Nepal has highlighted a challenge India is also confronting in its high-altitude Himalayas: scientists can increasingly identify potentially dangerous glaciers and model the areas that could be affected, but translating those risk assessments into preventive action remains difficult, India’s pre-eminent glaciologist Anil Kulkarni told businessline

Jalal Jeelani, an avid trekker and environmental filmmaker, who has trekked to dozens of alpine lakes across J&K, said the glaciers and glacial lakes in the higher reaches of J&K…

Deadly flooding along the China-Nepal border has put a sharp spotlight on how risks from natural disasters in the Himalayas are growing, at the same time that countries in the…