The imbalance of the Asian water tower

T Yao, T Bolch, D Chen, J Gao, W Immerzeel… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Abstract 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 …

High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability

D Li, X Lu, DE Walling, T Zhang, JF Steiner… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
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 …

Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions

T Zhang, D Li, AE East, DE Walling, S Lane… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Rapid atmospheric warming since the mid-twentieth century has increased temperature-
dependent erosion and sediment-transport processes in cold environments, affecting food …

[HTML][HTML] Scientific challenges in disaster risk reduction for the Sichuan–Tibet Railway

P Cui, Y Ge, S Li, Z Li, X Xu, GGD Zhou, H Chen… - Engineering …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Traversing the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, the Sichuan–Tibet Railway is by far the
most difficult railway project in the world. The Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau features the most …

Detection and potential early warning of catastrophic flow events with regional seismic networks

KL Cook, R Rekapalli, M Dietze, M Pilz, S Cesca… - Science, 2021‏ - science.org
Early warning is a critical potential tool for mitigating the impacts of large mass wasting and
flood events, a major hazard in the Himalaya. We used data from a dense seismic network in …

Carbon footprint assessment of face masks in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: Based on different protective performance and applicable scenarios

Y Luo, M Yu, X Wu, X Ding, L Wang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Widespread concerns have been raised about the huge environmental burden caused by
massive consumption of face masks in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. However …

Detecting the impact of climate change on alpine mass movements in observational records from the European Alps

M Jacquemart, S Weber, M Chiarle, M Chmiel… - Earth-Science …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Anthropogenic climate change is rapidly altering high mountain environments, including
changing the frequency, dynamic behavior, location, and magnitude of alpine mass …

Process, mechanisms, and early warning of glacier collapse-induced river blocking disasters in the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, southeastern Tibetan Plateau

B An, W Wang, W Yang, G Wu, Y Guo, H Zhu… - Science of the Total …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Glacier collapse is a fairly new type of glacier-related disasters on the Asian Water Towers
(AWTs) in the warming climate. On 16 October and 29 October 2018, two glacier collapses …

An overview of emergency communication networks

Q Wang, W Li, Z Yu, Q Abbasi, M Imran, S Ansari… - Remote Sensing, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
In recent years, major natural disasters and public safety accidents have frequently occurred
worldwide. In order to deal with various disasters and accidents using rapidly deployable …

[HTML][HTML] Geostructures, dynamics and risk mitigation of high-altitude and long-runout rockslides

Y Yin, B Li, Y Gao, W Wang, S Zhang… - Journal of Rock Mechanics …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Long-runout rockslides at high altitude could cause disaster chain in river basins and
destroy towns and major infrasturctures. This paper firstly explores the initiation mechanism …