SCIENCE The Vulnerable Ice Shelves of Antarctic

The stability of floating Antarctic ice shelves is key to the understanding of Antarctic’s contribution to the global sea-level rise. An Indo-Norwegian project, MADICE was initiated to study the role of ice shelves and ice rises in stabilising ice sheets around the coastal Dronning Maud Land of East Antarctica.

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HIMALAYAN Third Pole on Thin Ice

Himalayan glaciers influence the water regimes of major river systems in Asia and help sustain more than a billion people from several countries. Changing climate is threatening the health of Himalayan glaciers and potentially increasing hazards like glacier lake outburst flood, avalanches and landslides.

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