50 Years of Ice Loss Equivalent to a Six-Storied Building
The glaciers in the Himalayan region — consisting of the western, central and eastern Himalaya as well as the Karakoram range — have lost the equivalent of nearly 24 metres of water depth in cumulative ice mass from 1973 to 2023, according to new analysis by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). “While…