Glaciers in Asia’s Hindu Kush Himalaya could lose up to 75 per cent of their volume by century’s end due to global warming, causing both dangerous flooding and water shortages for the 240 million people who live in the mountainous region, according to a new report. A team of international scientists ha
Further advances in satellite technology in the past five years, alongside bolstered field efforts, have buoyed scientists’ understanding of the changes underway. The report draws on data running through December 2022.
Compared with a 2019 ICIMOD assessment of the region, “there’s a much higher level of confidence now in these findings", said Wester. “We have a better sense of what the loss will be through to 2100 at different levels of global warming.”With this newfound understanding comes grave concern for the people living in the Hindu Kush Himalaya.
"While it may sound like we'll have more water because glaciers are melting at an increased rate ... too frequently it will arise as floods instead of a steady flow," said Wester. Past peak water, supplies will eventually dwindle.
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