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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, comprises approximately 857,830,000 ha. Water from the Hindu Kush-Himala...

By Lawrence Hislop

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 undoubtedly experience water scarcity (UNEP 2010) due to a reduction in glacial i...

By Lawrence Hislop

Irrigation channel, Nepal Irrigation systems and pipelines from major rivers should be developed, maintained and improved. Necessary training, revival of old knowledge and implementation of new greener irrigation technology will require funds a...

By Lawrence Hislop

Road construction, Nepal In Nepal, mountain infrastructure such as hydropower plants, roads, bridges and communication systems are at risk with climate change and more variability in water runoff. With increased frequencies of landslides and...

By Lawrence Hislop

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 chemistry and nutrient availability, or through the...

By Lawrence Hislop

_mg_6798 UNEP/GRID-Arendal's report 'High mountain glaciers and climate change, Challenges to human livelihoods and adaptation' highlights the vulnerability and exposure of people dependent upon these rivers to floods, droughts...

By Lawrence Hislop

Agricultural produce, Nepal Given the high level of uncertainty regarding future runoff levels, and also the highly variable contribution of glacial water and snowmelt from the mountains, future agricultural production faces significant uncer...

By Lawrence Hislop

Kathmandu, Nepal The glacial contribution to river flow varies greatly, both annually and within and between catchments. The hydrological significance of glacier runoff also depends on other components of the hydrological cycle, such...

By Lawrence Hislop

Mangrove forest, Kenya Mangrove forest, Lamu, Kenya.

By Peter Prokosch

Mangrove forest, Lamu, Kenya The last decades have seen an increasing focus on the importance of mangrove forests in the coastal ecosystem. The ecosystem services provided by mangroves are many: they function as buffers between land and sea and prov...

By Peter Prokosch

Glacier from above Glaciers store about 75% of the world's freshwater and cover an astonishing 15,000,000 square kilometers of the World. Flying over these spectacular natural phenomena can be disorientating, as in this photograph, there c...

By Peter Prokosch

Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) feeding in midnight sun, Svalbard The largest animal on the Earth is the Blue Whale. Their hearts can weigh as much as a car and yet they eat only krill, a tiny shrimp-like animal, which they filter out from gulps of water through plates of tough baleen.

By Peter Prokosch

Iceberg in Disco Bay, Greenland The Ilulissat Icefjord in Disco Bay is one of the World's fastest flowing glaciers and a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is located 250km North of the Arctic Circle and it accounts for 10% of the production of Greenland's...

By Peter Prokosch

Geyser at Geysir, Iceland Geysers are named after this site, Geysir, a famous tourism attraction in Iceland. They are a type of hot spring and occur only under specific conditions where water boiling deep down in a series of tubes in the ground c...

By Peter Prokosch

Shoreline in the Seychelles Environmental pressures in the Seychelles, a group of granitic islands located in the Indian Ocean, are greatest on the coastal plain where over 80% of the country's flat land occurs. Marine and coastal ecosystems of the...

By Lawrence Hislop

Spectacular rock formations in the Seychelles The Seychelles is a community consisting of 115 islands over 1,3 million square kilometers of the western Indian Ocean. Smoothed granite rocks such as this one are dotted over the islands. The Granitic Seychelles have be...

By Lawrence Hislop

Spectacular patterns caused by erosion, Seychelles. Rocks along the coast have been weathered, leaving dramatic formations.

By Lawrence Hislop

Channels in the sand, Seychelles The idyllic Seychelles employ about 30% of the workforce in the tourism industry, which also generates approximately 70% of the country's hard currency. Development on the islands is concentrated on narrow coastal zones ...

By Lawrence Hislop

Litter on the beach, Seychelles The Republic of Seychelles comprises of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, around 1,600km East of Africa. The Seychelles is home to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites and is famous for it's beautiful beaches for containing th...

By Lawrence Hislop

Sea ice and shelf ice, Antarctic Peninsula Unlike the Arctic, which at its centre is an ocean, Antarctica is a landmass that is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. A permanent, massive ice sheet on Antarctica covers 98% of the continent and is containing the major ...

By Peter Prokosch

Littered beach, Bali, Indonesia The term marine pollution relates to a range of threats to the marine environment including from land-based sources, oil spills, sewage, invasive species, marine litter, overfishing, destruction of coastal habitats, heav...

By Lawrence Hislop

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