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Things David Likes Dec 18, 2024

View on Kagbeni by Wim van de Meerendonk, back home!

#nepal #mountain #mountainscape #mountains #kaligandaki #blue #color #colours #colors #colour #icefield #ice #landscape #nature #outdoors #outdoor #panorama #rock #rocks #sony #scenic #travel #valley #wimvandem #kagbeni #spring #nilgiri #green #monumental #river

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Nov 10, 2023

Climate Change Impact Assessment On The Hydrological Regime Of The Kaligandaki Basin, Nepal
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.332 <-- shared paper
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“HIGHLIGHTS
• The rise in temperature and increase in precipitation is projected in future in Kaligandaki River basin.
• The water availability in the basin is not likely to decrease during this century.
• The change in water balance in the upper sub-basins of Kaligandaki River is higher.
• The output from this research could be beneficial for water resources management..."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #Nepal #Kaligandaki #riverbasin #basin #river #hydrology #model #modeling #numericmodeling #climatechange #temperature #precipitation #ET ##waterresources #water #watersecurity #waterbalance #impactassessment #humanimpacts #freshwater #HinduKush #himalayas #SWAT #prediction #projection #cimip5 #gcm #waterbalance #snowmelt #evapotranspiration #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Aug 8, 2023

Shaligrams, the #sacred #fossils, are becoming rarer because of climate change https://theconversation.com/shaligrams-the-sacred-fossils-that-have-been-worshipped-by-hindus-and-buddhists-for-over-2-000-years-are-becoming-rarer-because-of-climate-change-209311

"For more than 2,000 years, #Hinduism, #Buddhism and the shamanic #Himalayan #religion of Bon have venerated #Shaligrams – ancient fossils of #ammonites, a class of #extinct sea creatures related to modern #squids... #ClimateChange, faster #GlacialMelting, and gravel mining in the #KaliGandaki are changing the course of the river, which means fewer Shaligrams are appearing each year."

Shaligrams, the sacred fossils that have been worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists for over 2,000 years, are becoming rarer because of climate change

Many Hindus, Buddhists and people who follow the shamanic religion of Bon undertake a pilgrimage each year to northern Nepal to look for Shaligrams, believed to be a manifestation of Lord Vishnu.

The Conversation