Ice sheets in the Himalayas have shrunk at a rate tenfold faster than in the preceding 10 centuries.
The rapid ice melt threat to agriculture and water supplies to millions of South Asia, the study, published on Monday in the journal Scientific Reports, showed.
Jonathan Carrivick, corresponding author and Assistant Principal, University of Leeds School of Geography said: ‘Our findings clearly show that ice is now being lost from Himalayan glaciers at a rate that is at least 10 times higher than the average rate over past centuries. This acceleration in the rate of loss has only emerged within the last few decades, and coincides with human-induced climate change.’
London: Global warming has melted the glaciers of the Himalayas by an “extraordinary degree” and threatened waters for millions of people in Asia, according to a study published on Monday, 20 December.
The study published Monday in the journal Scientific Reports discovered that mass ice loss of nearly 15.000 ice sheets in the Himalayas is particularly rapid than elsewhere in the world.
The Himalayas are called as a Third Pole because they represent the third largest concentration of glacier ice in the world, after Antarctica and the Arctic.
Melt of ice threatens agriculture and water supplies of millions in South Asia and helps to raise sea levels that threaten coastal communities around the world, the researchers said.
