Balendra Shah said the mechanism should be used to share satellite data and expertise to monitor dangerous glacial lakes.

While addressing the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump termed previous calls about AI warnings a "globalist scheme" and compared them to warnings about climate change, whose human causes are affirmed by the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community.

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit the same mountain in 2015 could have played a role by weakening the underlying bedrock as well, but its precise impact is unclear.

The 'Net Zero Portal' serves as a centralised digital platform for entities across sectors to register and publicly disclose their net zero strategies.

India had the highest number of people exposed to at least 30 days of risky heat added by climate change this summer.

To mark the day, the UN Environment Programme's Ozone Secretariat has put together a social media package in six languages, including cards, posters and suggested messages for the public.

The news comes amid growing signs of Earth's climate system destabilizing and loading the dice for more frequent and destructive extreme weather events.

Billions of people ultimately depend on water originating in Himalayan snow and ice. At the same time, they are increasingly exposed to hazards emerging from a rapidly changing cryosphere

Hot and dry weather is causing clay soil beneath parts of London to shrink, raising subsidence risks and leaving homeowners facing cracks, warped windows and costly repairs.

Prime Minister Balendra Shah has vowed to "strongly raise" with the international community the disasters that Nepal has experienced as a result of climate change.

The WHO has warned that erratic weather patterns could cause a rise in dengue and heat-related illnesses in India. Dr Anjal Prakash explains the interplay of climate and the rise in heat and monsoon-related diseases.

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The combined effect of El Nino and climate change accelerates glacier melting, creating conditions ripe for multi-hazard incidents.

The report says that if there is a delay of about eight years (the expected average global implementation delay) in reaching the standards, the reduction would only be 10 per cent, translating into substantially greater health impacts over the period.

KP Sharma Oli said that the part of the glacier that broke apart and triggered the flash flood was small. The remaining glacier can break at any time and cause similar incidents.

WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo said the phenomenon could deliver "a massive blow" to communities and economies worldwide.

Using gravity measurements and 3D modelling, researchers mapped ice beneath rock glaciers and found that these formations could represent an important but largely overlooked source of stored water.

The Foreign Minister's clarification comes amidst extensive search, rescue, and rehabilitation operations in flood-affected regions.

The study, published in Discover Hazards, assessed 127 lakes across Arunachal Pradesh. It found that 89 lakes were at low risk, 36 at medium risk and two at high risk of glacial lake outburst floods

A new study has found that the thousands of people who gather at Everest Base Camp each season may be doing more than leaving footprints behind.

The devastating deluge that swept through the mountain valleys on the border between Nepal and Tibet in China is a potent reminder of a growing green-energy risk in one of the world's most hazard-prone areas.

This would mean the planet would be facing severe impacts of climate change including significant changes to ice sheets, sea ice, glaciers, permafrost and snow

Nepal Floods: Located high in the Himalayas near the Nepal-China border, a massive glacial collapse sent a violent surge through the Lhende Khola into the Bhote Koshi and Trishuli river systems.

The exposure outpaces that for any other age group and is nearly triple the 190 million people (30 per cent) aged 60-69 experiencing the additional health threat, the researchers said.