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Women carry belongings salvaged from their flooded home after monsoon rains, in the Qambar Shahdadkot district of Sindh Province, of Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. 

‘Doomsday’ flooding in Pakistan linked to glacial melt, expert says

Natural disasters

Himalayan glaciers are melting at a much faster pace than anyone had really appreciated to date, according to Huma Yusuf, host of “Climate Mahaul,” a podcast focused on climate change. Yusuf joined The World’s host Carol Hills to discuss Pakistan’s catastrophic flooding.

A man with a child walks in front of the Gankar Punsun glacier at Dochula in Bhutan.

Himalayan glaciers are granted ‘rights of human beings’ for protection

Environment
Kathmandu's air quality is notorious. Now there's an Air Quality Index to measure just how bad.

Nepal’s air pollution threatens humans and glaciers

Health
Scientists setting up GPS sensors to measure "accelerated uplift" in Iceland.

Melting glaciers lift Iceland — literally

Environment