Srinagar, Oct 15: In a landmark scientific collaboration, researchers from India and the European Union (EU) have launched an ambitious project to study the rapidly changing Himalayan cryosphere—the region of ice, snow, and permafrost that sustains millions of lives across South Asia.

The 9-million CryoSCOPE project (Cryosphere Science Concluding in new Observations and Productive Exploitation) brings together leading institutions from India and Europe to monitor and model glaciers, snow, and permafrost across the Himalaya, Alps, Finnish Lapland, Iceland, and Svalbard. Coordinated by the Finnish Meteorological Institute and co-funded by India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences under the EU’s Horizon Europe framework, the Indian consortium includes IIT-Madras, IIT-Kharagpur, IIT-Roorkee, and the

See Full Page