High Mountain Asia has the largest volume of glacier ice outside the polar regions and is considered the water tower of Asia. These glaciers provide drinking and irrigation water for millions…
The Himalaya plays a vital role in regulating the freshwater availability for nearly a billion people living in the Indus, Ganga, and Brahmaputra River basins. Due to climate change and…
The Hindu Kush–Karakoram–Himalayan system, named the Third Pole because it is the largest global store of frozen water after the polar regions, provides a reliable water supply to almost 2…
Global warming-induced melting and thawing of the cryosphere are severely altering the volume and timing of water supplied from High Mountain Asia, adversely affecting downstream food and energy systems that…
A joint Swiss-British scientific round table was held in March on the “Top of Europe”, and included researchers and influencers from leading Swiss and British institutes and universities (Tobias Bolch…
Tobias Bolch has been identified as “Highly Cited Researcher” in the field “Geosciences” Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics. In 2021, about 0.1 %, of the world's researchers, in 22 research fields…