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
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
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.
Glaciers are one of the main reserves of fresh water on our planet, and their evolution is one of the best indicators of climate change. However, the study of its growth or thaw rate ran into the problem of the scarcity of data on a regional scale.