New research, published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, used surface meltwater samples from four glaciers in the European Alps, as well as from Canada, Sweden, Svalbard and the western Greenland ice sheet

Next Pandemic glaciers melting; In fact, this would not be a new case, since an investigation carried out with ice samples taken

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

Millions of people depend on water from the glaciers of the high peaks of Asia. But southeast Tibet has some of the fastest melting glaciers in the entire continent.

An Engineer from Kashmir who was working in a power project in Uttarakhand' Chamoli district has been missing since bursting of a glacier