The Himalayas’ rivers of ice are vanishing. A new paper, published just yesterday in Science Advances, revealed that glaciers in a 2,000-kilometer-wide stretch of mountains, located in the nations of India, China, Nepal, and Bhutan, lost more than a foot and a half of ice each year from 2000-2016. In this article James Temple, MIT Technology’s senior editor for energy, highlights the devastating impacts of these melting glaciers on Asia’s water supply and the alarming rate at which they are thawing.
Read the full article at: https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613787/melting-in-the-himalayas-is-a…
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