Pooling together more than 40 renowned Chinese and U.S.experts in the field of glaciers and snow cover from a variety of institutions of the two countries,the CAS-NASA Workshop on the Use of Earth Observations to Address Glacier Change and Associated Hazards in the Hindu Kush Himalayas was convened from January 20 to 23 in Kathmandu,the capital of Nepal.Initiated against the milestone China-US Joint Announcement on Climate Change,which was released in November 2014,the meeting was sponsored by the Chinese Pooling together more than 40 renowned Chinese and USexperts in the field of glaciers and snow cover from a variety of institutions of the two countries, the CAS-NASA Workshop on the Use of Earth Observations to Address Glacier Change and Associated Hazards in the Hindu Kush Himalayas was convened from January 20 to 23 in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Initiated against the milestone China-US Joint Announcement on Climate Change, which was released in November 2014, the meeting was sponsored by the Chinese