An ICIMOD report points to reduced water availability for 12 Asian river systems fed by the spring thaw on the Hindu ...

The Ganga and Brahmaputra basins have experienced a record low in snow persistence — the fraction of time snow is on the ...

Indus sees steepest 5-year drop, Mekong & Salween lose over 50% snow. ICIMOD urges urgent basin-level action, adaptive infrastructure & regional cooperation to avert drought crisis.

The “Snow Update Report 2025” reveals that snow cover in the Hindu Kush mountainous region dropped by 23.6 percent in 2025 ...

She recently completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne, which examined community and civil society struggles over long-proposed hydropower dams and water diversions in the Thai–Myanmar ...

A 23-year time series of basin-scale snow persistence during the ... recorded a bigger decline across the Mekong (51.9 per cent), Salween (48.3 per cent), and Tibetan Plateau (29.1 per cent) river ...

The Mekong and Salween basins were particularly affected ... He stressed the importance of tailored actions based on specific river basin conditions. In India, the Ganges and Brahmaputra river ...

Story continues below this ad — However, it was alarmingly lowest in River Mekong at -51.9% and Salween at -48.3% and the lowest in ... measures are water management and drought preparedness, ...

During a tour of the Western Slope last week, U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., said he was frustrated with the pace of ...