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The high-altitude Hindu Kush–Karakoram region is home to more than 50 language communities, belonging to six phylogenies. The significance of this region as a linguistic area has been discussed in the past, but the tendency has been to focus on individual features and phenomena, and more seldo...
The weather conditions can be extremely varied. In the mountains of the Hindu Kush, where you will be travelling at heights in access of 3,000 metres even in the middle of summer it can turn bitter with the occasional snow flurries falling. Temperatures in the Islamabad and the plains ca...
Palas ValleyPakistanForest cover change in the mountainous region is driven by a variety of anthropogenic and natural factors.The Hindu Kush-Himalayan Mountains has experienced a considerable vegetation cover change due to intensive human activities,such as population growth,proximate causes,accessibility,...
District Shangla is located at western extremities of the Himalayan and eastern Hindu Kush Mountain series generally termed as Hindu-Himalayas, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Topographically, it consists of narrow valleys and high mountains covered by dense forest at elevation range fr...
The Hindukush-West Pakistan high runs in the NNE-SSW direction consistent with the tectonic trends in this area, indicating the highest seismic activity near the Yasman fracture zone. The b-value seismicity map also reveals the same seismic features as brought out by the A-value map. The b...
The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment Shobhakar Dhakal, Leena Srivastava, Bikash Sharma, Debajit Palit, Brijesh Mainali, Rabindra Nepal, Pallav Purohit, Anandajit Goswami, Ghulam Mohd Malikyar & Kul Bahadur Wakhley 63k Accesses 10 Citations 23 Altmetric Abstract As mentioned in ...
Air Pollution in the Hindu Kush Himalaya 10 Coordinating Lead Authors Eri Saikawa, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA, e-mail: eri.saikawa@emory.edu Arnico Panday, ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal, e-mail: arnico.panday@icimod.org (corresponding author) Shichang Kang, State Key Laboratory of ...
Good environmental management requires a good information infrastructure (Huettmann 2011; Bush et al. 2017). It’s an essential foundation, and the future (e.g. Humphries and Huettmann 2018). However, this is a topic that most nations, their education, funding and their agencies still struggle...
Air pollution has large impacts on the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), affecting not just the health of people and ecosystems, but also climate, the cryosphere, monsoon patterns, water availability, agriculture, and incomes (established but incomplete). Altho