Steve Cole, Erin Guiltenane In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using 30 years of NASA satellite data have found that the volume of these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990 as glaciers melt and retreat due to climate change. The findings, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, will help researchers assessing the potential hazards …

There is a need to assess these risks and challenges, and their impacts on biodiversity, ecology and human wellbeing of Hindu Kush-Himalaya regions

Participants of Ghizer Youth Maraka blast successive governments for their failure and apathy in addressing the issue

For years, suicide cases in Chitral and Gilgit Baltistan have been haunting the mountain communities, but a fresh wave of suicides has left them baffled. Ahmad Faraz sheds light on the issue with a nuanced understanding of the local milieu.

Organised by the Yasin Winter Sports Club, a community initiative, eight men and four women teams from Ghizer participated in the two-day event was held after the district administration cancelled the famous Khalti festival.

Megalithic graves or stone circles are found in all four tehsils – Punial, Ishkoman, Gupis and Yasin of the district. A few published reports and articles mention the megalithic graves in Yasin, Gupis, Iskhoman and Upper Gakhuch.

youth and civil society activists from Gilgit-Baltistan took to the microblogging and social networking engine twitter condemning the murder of Azmat and demanding provision of justice to the victim