Himalayan Glaciers Are Melting at Furious Rate, New Study Shows

Glaciers across the Himalayas are melting at an remarkable charge, with new study showing that the vast ice sheets there shrank 10 occasions faster in the past 40 years than throughout the earlier 7 centuries.

Avalanches, flooding and other consequences of the accelerating reduction of ice imperil citizens in India, Nepal and Bhutan and threaten to disrupt agriculture for hundreds of hundreds of thousands of men and women across South Asia, according to the scientists. And because water from melting glaciers contributes to sea-amount rise, glacial ice reduction in the Himalayas also provides to the danger of inundation and connected problems confronted by coastal communities all around the planet.