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Agricultural land, Nepal
The irrigated cropland in the basins of the Asian rivers originating in the Himalayas that are most dependent upon the mountains for water flow,…
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Kathmandu City, Nepal
People living in mountain regions across the world are used to environmental change and are regularly dealing with too much or too little water,…
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Fish, Nepal
Glacier melt inputs to rivers can affect the ecosystems in a number of ways, including habitat changes such as stream temperatures, sediment concentrations, water…
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Nepalese township
Climate change is believed to contribute to extreme weather events and possibly to increase the frequency and magnitude of natural hazards and associated disasters,…
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Nepalese township and Himalayas
Glaciers originate from accumulations of snow and ice and flow down the slope in response to gravitational forces, and grow or shrink as a…
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Meat drying, Nepal
By 2050, as projected by FAO, global cereal production needs to be around 3000 million tonnes in order to meet demand. However, some estimates…
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Township in Nepal
Flash floods pose a serious threat to people in mountain regions and have severe downstream effects. In contrast to most glacial lake outburst floods…
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Cattle, Nepal
The Himalayas are the origin of major river systems that support some 3 billion people in 18 countries. In the future, many regions will…
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Himalayas
Over half of the world’s population lives in watersheds of major rivers originating in mountains with glaciers and snow. A warming climate is now…
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Agricultural land, Nepal
Predicting the future response of mountain glaciers is fraught with difficulty. The world’s mountain ranges encompass a huge range of topographic and climatic environments,…
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Township nearby the Himalayas
Pakistan has one of the largest man-made contiguous irrigation systems in the Indus basin which is based on the water available from the Indus…
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Himalayan river bridge
Impacts of the shrinkage and disappearance of mountain glaciers include changes in the flow characteristics of glacierfed rivers, glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs) in…