Disappearing Glaciers

A study by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development projects an unavoidable loss of glaciers in the Himalaya Mountains.

[E]ven if the most ambitious Paris climate accord goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century were met, more than a third of the region’s glaciers will be lost. If the global rise in temperature were 2 degrees Celsius, two-thirds of Himalayan glaciers will melt.

The glaciers feed into rivers that 1.9 billion people depend on for water.