Climate & Glaciers – GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF TAJIKISTAN

GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF TAJIKISTAN

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Oct

Climate & Glaciers

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Glacial Permafrost Thaw in the Pamirs

High in the Pamirs, where the landscape folds into sharp ridges and cirques, ice is not confined to glaciers alone. Much of it lies hidden within the ground, frozen into the soil and rock. This is permafrost: a perennially frozen ground that has shaped Pamiri landscapes for millennia. Now, under a warming climate, that frozen…
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Apr

Climate & Glaciers

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Droughts in Khatlon: Climate Pressures on Lowlands

The lowlands of Khatlon stretch wide and flat beneath a hard summer sky. Irrigation canals run like veins across fields of cotton and wheat, pulling water from distant rivers to sustain a landscape that depends on every drop. The sun beats down, hot winds rise from the Afghan plain, and the horizon shimmers. In dry…
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Apr

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Climate and Glaciers: Melting Heights

High above the valleys, the mountains gleam white, their glaciers stretching across ridges like frozen rivers. From afar they seem eternal, a steady crown of ice feeding the rivers below. Up close, they are moving, groaning, shrinking. In Tajikistan’s Pamirs and Alay ranges, glaciers cover thousands of square kilometers, storing the water that sustains life…
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Oct

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Glacier Retreat Trends

On a clear summer morning in the Pamirs, the first light catches the crest of Ismoil Somoni Peak, casting shadows that stretch across the Fedchenko Glacier. It is a scene at once timeless and fragile. The glacier—one of the largest outside the polar regions—has for generations fed the rivers that make Tajikistan a land of…
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