Record-breaking glacier melt in Himalayas accelerating Pakistan floods

Category : Climate Change | Location : International  | Posted on 2022-09-02 01:41:25


Record-breaking glacier melt in Himalayas accelerating Pakistan floods

Every year, as the weather warms, teams of Indian scientists trek the Himalayan mountains to study the Chhota Shigri glacier in India’s northern state of Himachal Pradesh. For the past decade and a half, they’ve recorded the extent of snow cover, checked the temperature of the air and soil, observed the surface of ice formations and measured the discharge from seasonal snowmelt that feeds the river valleys below.

Source: https://www.hindustantimes.com/environment/recordbreaking-glacier-melt-in-himalayas-accelerating-pakistan-floods-101662104659836.html

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