Search Results for: landslides in pakistan
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Tour de Impossible? Pakistan hosts ‘world’s toughest cycle race’
Finishing nearly 5,000 metres above sea level after hundreds of kilometres winding past blackened glaciers and snow-capped peaks: a new…
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At the knot of past empires: Zood Khun, a Wakhi village in the high northern mountains of Pakistan
Zood Khun, the village at the end of Chapursan Valley At the top of Upper Hunza in an area called…
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Five people injured as rain and snowfall cause landslides in Gilgit-Baltistan
Gilgit/Chilas/Hunza/Skardu/Ghizer: The mountainous Gilgit-Batlistan area of Pakistan has been receiving heavy rain and snowfall since last night. Upper reaches of…
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Climate Change and Glacier Melting: A Case Study on Retreating Karakoram Glaciers, Pakistan
Abdul Hameed Assistant Professor, Degree College, Gilgit “Climate change is not science fiction”, Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California and…
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Pakistan’s disaster vulnerability can be reduced through institutional and community resilience
Islamabad, June 2: Population in Pakistan is vulnerable to disaster due to a range of hazards including avalanches, cyclones/storms, droughts,…
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