Jun 20, 2023 · If the world breaches 3 degrees Celsius of warming, glaciers in Nepal and Bhutan in the eastern Himalayas are at risk of losing 75% of their ice, and by just one degree more, that ticks up to 80%...

Jun 22, 2023 · New Delhi — Glaciers in the Hindu Kush region of the Himalaya mountains are melting at the fastest rate ever and could shed as much as 80% of their ice by the end of this century if global...

Our results indicate that glaciers across the Himalayas experienced significant ice loss over the past 40 years, with the average rate of ice loss twice as rapid in the 21st century compared to the end of the 20th century (Fig. 1).

Jun 20, 2023 · Glaciers in Asia’s Hindu Kush Himalaya could lose up to 75% of their volume by century’s end due to global warming, causing both dangerous flooding and water shortages for the 240 million people...

Jan 4, 2022 · In a new study, researchers analysed ice loss from 14,798 Himalayan glaciers since the Little Ice Age, 400-700 years ago. They found that the rate of loss in the last few decades has been 10x...

Jun 20, 2023 · Glaciers in Asia’s Hindu Kush Himalayas are melting at unprecedented rates and could lose up to 75 percent of their volume by century’s end, scientists have said, warning of dangerous flooding and...

Dec 20, 2021 · Himalayan glaciers are undergoing rapid mass loss but rates of contemporary change lack long-term (centennial-scale) context. Here, we reconstruct the extent and surfaces of 14,798 Himalayan...

Jun 26, 2023 · ICIMOD finds that 70-80% of current glacier volume in this region will disappear by 2100 under a high emission scenario, but keeping the global temperature average to 1.5°C could limit glacier loss to 30%, and also help preserve the region’s essential snow cover.

Aug 10, 2020 · The future of Himalayan glaciers — New research shows that the rate at which glacier ice is lost from the Himalaya has doubled in the last 20 years and is similar to the rate of ice loss...

The glaciers sit atop the Hindu Kush Himalaya mountain peaks where more than 240 million people live. The communities around the mountain range get water directly from pools created by the massive ice hunks.