{"id":120062,"date":"2021-08-12T09:21:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T09:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=120062"},"modified":"2021-08-12T10:37:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T10:37:26","slug":"the-study-on-pensilungpa-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/the-study-on-pensilungpa-glacier\/","title":{"rendered":"The study on Pensilungpa Glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Where the Pensilungpa Glacier, which is under the study of Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), Dehradun, located?<br><\/strong>a) Uttarakhand<br>b) Sikkim<br>c) Ladakh<br>d) Himachal Pradesh<br><strong>Answer: (c)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Scientists from the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), Dehradun conducted a recent study on Pensilungpa Glacier.<\/li><li>This glacier is located in the Zanskar Valley in Ladakh.<\/li><li>Scientist in their study has found that the glacier is retreating due to increase in temperature and decrease in precipitation during winters.<\/li><li>Since 2015, the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) has been working on various aspects on glaciology \u2013 glacier health (mass balance).<\/li><li>WIHG is an autonomous body under the Department of Science and Technology.<\/li><li>This institute is monitoring, dynamics, discharge, past climatic conditions, speculation for future climate change and its impact on glaciers in this region.<\/li><li>A team of scientists from the institute ventured to study the less explored region of the Himalayas at Zanskar in Ladakh.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/ladakh-glacier-retreat-due-to-warming-low-winter-precipitation-finds-study\/article35788810.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/ladakh-glacier-retreat-due-to-warming-low-winter-precipitation-finds-study\/article35788810.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Where the Pensilungpa Glacier, which is under the study of Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), Dehradun, located?a) Uttarakhandb) Sikkimc) Ladakhd) Himachal PradeshAnswer: (c)Related Facts:- Scientists from the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), Dehradun conducted a recent study on Pensilungpa Glacier. This glacier is located in the Zanskar Valley in Ladakh. Scientist in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":120063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-120062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120064,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120062\/revisions\/120064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}