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The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has expressed a significant worry regarding the Himalayan rivers, particularly the Indus, the Ganges, and the Brahmaputra, which are essential for India. He cautioned that the flow of these water bodies could decrease in the coming years due to the retreat of glaciers and ice sheets caused by global warming. … Read more
The Himalayan glaciers, which act as vital water reservoirs for nearly two billion people in South Asia, have undergone significant changes in recent decades, posing a threat to the water supply and safety of the entire Indian subcontinent. The melting of glaciers in the Kashmir Himalayas, in particular, is occurring at an alarming pace. The … Read more
Some fifteen million people worldwide could be threatened by sudden overflows of glacial lakes, and the most exposed are the populations of the high mountains of Asia (India, Pakistan and China) and the Andes (Peru and Bolivia). Flooding by glacial lakes More than half of those fifteen million people exposed to this potential risk are … Read more
In the remainder of the century and if urgent measures are not taken to stop global warming, a minimum of 60% of the glaciers of the entire globe could disappear before 2100. This 60% loss is estimated in the best of cases, with an increase of 1.5ºC in temperature, less than the 2.7ºC average global … Read more
As much as we reduce carbon dioxide emissions today, it is already too late: half of the glaciers in the Alps are doomed to disappear by 2050. Half a century later, 90% will have melted, if not due to climate change we take action to reduce global warming. This is clear from the first large study … Read more
The origin of the next pandemic that humanity suffers could not be in bats, monkeys or birds, but in the melting of the ice of the poles, where countless viruses and bacteria live frozen. Findings from a new study indicate that as global temperatures rise due to climate change, viruses and bacteria hidden in glaciers … Read more
The average rate of retreat of the largest glacier in Uttarakhand, about 30 kilometres long, between 0.5 and 2.5 kilometres wide and with an area of 143 square kilometres, was 20 meters a year between 1935 and 1996, but the melting increased to 38 meters per year. Gangotri Glacier Melting During the last decade, the … Read more
Switzerland’s glaciers have lost more than half their volume in less than 100 years, and this year’s long, hot summer has accelerated melting, according to a new study. Glaciers support ski resorts and attract climbers and hikers in summer, but they are also essential to Europe’s water supply. The Alpine communities are now worried about … Read more
Haider Zaidi and his villagers claim that the glacier fruit blooming above the valley was planted by their ancestors about 150 years ago. Manawar village is located near Skardu at an altitude of 2,228 above sea level. Manawar is a big village with about 500 families. All of them are employed in agriculture. Haider is a 50-year-old middle-aged … Read more
Ground Report | New Delhi: Himalayas are melting; A study by the University of Leeds in England found that the Himalayan ice caps have lost ten times more ice in recent decades than the average since the last great glacial expansion 400 to 700 years ago, a period is known as the Little Ice Age. … Read more
