(English) The Indian army has littered Kashmir’s highlands with unexploded shells, restricting available grazing land and causing the death and injury of people and animals

The most comprehensive assessment of Himalayan glaciers yet, published in 2011 by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). http://www.icimod.org/publications/index.php/search/publication/791

This publication, compiled by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), argues that traditional strategies of local communities are increasingly proving to be ineffective in dealing with floods. http://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/03/16/13035

A study published in April 2012 by Probe International finds that large dams being built in western China could trigger disaster — earthquakes, even tsunamis — due to their construction in seismic hazard zones. http://probeinternational.org/library/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/JohnJackso…

An inventory of the status of glaciers in the Indus, published by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Develop (ICIMOD) http://www.icimod.org/publications/index.php/search/publication/788

From the UK Government Office for Science’s Foresight Programme, this report looks at how environmental change, including climate change, land degradation, and the degradation of coastal and marine ecosystems, over the next 50 years will affect migration trends.; includes a section on migration from mountain regions, particularly the eastern Himalayas. http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/foresight/docs/migration/11-1116-migration-and-global-environmental-change