{"id":10771,"date":"2019-10-09T18:05:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T12:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10771"},"modified":"2019-10-09T18:05:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T12:35:42","slug":"hindu-kush-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hindu-kush-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Kush Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> India\nMeteorological Department (IMD) will collaborate with meteorological agencies\nin China and Pakistan, among others, to provide climate forecast services to\ncountries in Hindu Kush Mountain region. It will be under the World\nMeteorological Organisation (WMO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Hindu Kush and Himalayan Range (HKH) is\nfamously known as the earth\u2019s \u201cthird pole\u201d as it forms the largest area of\npermanent ice cover outside of the North and South Poles.<\/li><li>The HKH region spans Afghanistan, Bangladesh,\nBhutan, China, India, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan,\nTajikistan, and Uzbekistan.<\/li><li>It is the source of ten major rivers, and is\nparticularly sensitive to climate change. According to Hindu Kush Himalaya\nAssessment, 36% of the glaciers along in the Hindu Kush and Himalaya range\n(HKH) could melt by 2100 even if global temperature rise is limited to 1.5C\nabove pre-industrial levels.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/factly.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/HKH-1.png?w=750\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10777\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\nInformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>World Meteorological\nOrganization (WMO):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is an intergovernmental organization with a\nmembership of 192 Member States and Territories. It is a specialized agency of\nthe United Nations (UN) for meteorology, operational hydrology and related\ngeophysical sciences.<\/li><li>It was established by the ratification of the\nWMO Convention on 23 March 1950. It is headquartered at Geneva, Switzerland.<\/li><li>It originated from the International\nMeteorological Organization (IMO), which was established after the 1873 Vienna\nInternational Meteorological Congress. <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: India Meteorological Department (IMD) will collaborate with meteorological agencies in China and Pakistan, among others, to provide climate forecast services to countries in Hindu Kush Mountain region. It will be under the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Facts: The Hindu Kush and Himalayan Range (HKH) is famously known as the earth\u2019s \u201cthird pole\u201d as it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hindu-kush-mountains\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hindu Kush Mountains<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4720],"class_list":["post-10771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-hindu-kush-himalayan-region","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}