Glacial change and hydrological implications in the Himalaya and Karakoram

Y Nie, HD Pritchard, Q Liu, T Hennig, W Wang… - Nature reviews earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Glaciers in the Himalaya–Karakoram mountain ranges harbour approximately half
of the ice volume in High-mountain Asia and modulate the flow of freshwater to almost 869 …

[HTML][HTML] Precision agriculture techniques and practices: From considerations to applications

U Shafi, R Mumtaz, J García-Nieto, SA Hassan… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Internet of Things (IoT)-based automation of agricultural events can change the agriculture
sector from being static and manual to dynamic and smart, leading to enhanced production …

Importance of snow and glacier meltwater for agriculture on the Indo-Gangetic Plain

H Biemans, C Siderius, AF Lutz, S Nepal… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Densely populated floodplains downstream of Asia's mountain ranges depend heavily on
mountain water resources, in particular for irrigation. An intensive and complex multi …

South Asian agriculture increasingly dependent on meltwater and groundwater

AF Lutz, WW Immerzeel, C Siderius… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Irrigated agriculture in South Asia depends on meltwater, monsoon rains and
groundwater. Climate change alters the hydrology and causes shifts in the timing …

Promoting the productivity and quality of brinjal aligned with heavy metals immobilization in a wastewater irrigated heavy metal polluted soil with biochar and chitosan

V Turan, SA Khan, M Iqbal, PMA Ramzani… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Depleting aquifers, lack of planning and low socioeconomic status of Pakistani farmers have
led them to use wastewater (WW) for irrigating their crops causing food contamination with …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of land use/land cover changes on water quality and human health in district Peshawar Pakistan

W Ahmad, J Iqbal, MJ Nasir, B Ahmad, MT Khan… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The quality and quantity of groundwater resources are affected by landuse/landcover
(LULC) dynamics, particularly the increasing urbanization coupled with high household …

Ameliorative Effects of Biochar on Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) Growth and Heavy Metal Immobilization in Soil Irrigated with Untreated Wastewater

M Kamran, Z Malik, A Parveen, L Huang, M Riaz… - Journal of Plant Growth …, 2020 - Springer
Untreated wastewater carries substantial amount of heavy metals and causes potential
ecological risks to the environment, food quality, and soil health. The pot study was …

[HTML][HTML] Combining downscaled-GRACE data with SWAT to improve the estimation of groundwater storage and depletion variations in the Irrigated Indus Basin (IIB)

A Arshad, A Mirchi, M Samimi, B Ahmad - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The growth of agricultural production systems is a major driver of groundwater depletion
worldwide. Balancing groundwater supply and food production requires localized …

Effects of energy consumption and ecological footprint on CO2 emissions: an empirical evidence from Pakistan

S Abbas, S Kousar, A Pervaiz - Environment, Development and …, 2021 - Springer
This study aims twofold; first, to analyze the effects of traditional energy, renewable energy,
ecological footprint, urbanization, transportation on carbon dioxide emission (CO 2), and …

[HTML][HTML] Factors determining farmers' access to and sources of credit: evidence from the rain-fed zone of Pakistan

A Ullah, N Mahmood, A Zeb, H Kächele - Agriculture, 2020 - mdpi.com
This study investigates the factors that affect farmers' access to agricultural credit and its role
in adopting improved agricultural technologies in the rain-fed zone of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa …