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AFP Himalayan glaciers that provide a vital source of fresh water for around two billion people are melting twice as quickly as in 2000, a report warned Saturday. (confirmed by 2 sources) [1]

Malaysia * Families flock to revamped Sultan Abdul Samad Building to celebrate first day of Aidilfitri * Eradicate all elements that threaten national harmony, says King * King hosts Aidilfitri reception at Istana Negara * Melaka cops bust online sex... [2]

UN panel now says Himalayan glaciers may not disappear by 2035 Georg Kaser, from the University of Innsbruck in Austria, had warned that the 2035 figure was wrong, “so wrong that it is not even worth discussing”. [3]

Bhutan lowers sustainable development fees to boost tourism The kingdom's goal is to reach pre-pandemic visitors level while preserving nature. But this could prove in vain due to global warming. [4]

AFP Mingma Rita Sherpa was not home when the muddy torrent roared into his village in Nepal without warning, but when he returned, he did not recognise his once beautiful settlement. [5]

Your Thoughts … ရေခဲမြစ်များ အရည်ပျော်ပြီး ဖြစ်လာနေခဲ့သော တောင်ပေါ်ရေအိုင်ကြီးများက ရေကြီးရေလျှံမှု အန္တရာယ်ရှိသည် Your Thoughts … No Result View All Result Founded in 1993 by a group of Myanmar journalists living in exile in Thailand, The Irrawaddy ... [6]

A boat passing on the Ayeyarwaddy river at Ayeyarwaddy Myitsone, near the Myitsone dam project, Myitkyina, Kachin State. [7]

Swaminathan Aiyar is a research fellow at the Cato Institute. Vijay Kumar Raina is former deputy director-general of the Geological Survey of India. [8]

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[1] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2026-03-23 · 75% match

Himalayan glaciers melting twice as fast, threatening billions: report

AFP Himalayan glaciers that provide a vital source of fresh water for around two billion people are melting twice as quickly as in 2000, a report warned Saturday.

[2] MY www.thestar.com.my · 2026-03-21 · 40% match

Asean News Headlines at 10pm on Saturday (March 21, 2026)

Malaysia * Families flock to revamped Sultan Abdul Samad Building to celebrate first day of Aidilfitri * Eradicate all elements that threaten national harmony, says King * King hosts Aidilfitri reception at Istana Negara * Melaka cops bust online sex

[3] MM asianews.it · 85% match

UN panel now says Himalayan glaciers may not disappear by 2035

UN panel now says Himalayan glaciers may not disappear by 2035 Georg Kaser, from the University of Innsbruck in Austria, had warned that the 2035 figure was wrong, “so wrong that it is not even worth discussing”.

[4] MM asianews.it · 85% match

Bhutan lowers sustainable development fees to boost tourism

Bhutan lowers sustainable development fees to boost tourism The kingdom's goal is to reach pre-pandemic visitors level while preserving nature. But this could prove in vain due to global warming.

[5] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-10-06 · 75% match

Nepalis fear more floods as Himalayan glaciers melt

AFP Mingma Rita Sherpa was not home when the muddy torrent roared into his village in Nepal without warning, but when he returned, he did not recognise his once beautiful settlement.

[6] MM burma.irrawaddy.com · 2019-12-01 · 75% match

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Your Thoughts … ရေခဲမြစ်များ အရည်ပျော်ပြီး ဖြစ်လာနေခဲ့သော တောင်ပေါ်ရေအိုင်ကြီးများက ရေကြီးရေလျှံမှု အန္တရာယ်ရှိသည် Your Thoughts … No Result View All Result Founded in 1993 by a group of Myanmar journalists living in exile in Thailand, The Irrawaddy

[7] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-12-28 · 40% match

Chinese professor sparks outrage by claiming Ayeyarwady river ‘flows from China’

A boat passing on the Ayeyarwaddy river at Ayeyarwaddy Myitsone, near the Myitsone dam project, Myitkyina, Kachin State.

[8] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2022-06-17 · 72% match

Himalayan rivers will survive glacial retreat

Swaminathan Aiyar is a research fellow at the Cato Institute. Vijay Kumar Raina is former deputy director-general of the Geological Survey of India.

[9] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-11-07 · 40% match

Nepal searches for avalanche victims

Nearly two billion people rely on water from Himalayan glaciers that scientists say are melting at a worrying speed (AFP file) AFP Nepali rescuers on Thursday searched for the bodies of multiple climbers killed in an avalanche this week, while Italy

[10] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2025-10-29 · 40% match

China-Led Environmental Destruction: A Cautionary Tale

On Sept. 19 at precisely 4:30 PM, the remote Tibetan Plateau near Gyantse County in Shigatse witnessed an event that would ignite a firestorm of controversy, extending far beyond the 52-second spectacle it produced.

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