Jeffrey S Kargel

Jeffrey S Kargel
Global warming leads to vanishing glaciers
Glacier melt in Himalayas to increase rapidly till 2050, then may decrease, says study by IIT
Mohd Farooq Azam
Joseph M Shea
Santosh Nepal
Umesh K Haritashya
Smriti Srivastava
Fabien Maussion
Nuzhat Qazi
Pierre Chevallier
A P Dimri
Anil V Kulkarni
J Graham Cogley
Isa M Bahuguna
Posted on 20 Jul, 2021 03:22 PM

The Himalaya-Karakoram region in South Asia is often called the water tower of Asia or the Third Pole. It is one of the most heavily glacierized mountain regions on Earth.
Parkachik glacier, a part of the Zanskar region, Ladakh (Image: Mahua Sarkar, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)
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